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Frank Walker (1861-1948) was an Australian historian who was a co-founder and later President of the Royal Australian Historical Society.

Biography
Walker was born in 1861 at South Yarra and moved to Sydney in 1885. As an adult Walker was a keen historian and published a number of works on Australian history. He travelled widely throughout New South Wales taking photographs and delivering lectures.

Frank Walker died in 1948.

Royal Australian Historical Society
The Society was established in 1901 as the Australian Historical Society; it received a royal charter in 1918 and was renamed the Royal Australian Historical Society. Walker was one of its founders, along with Dr Andrew Houison (the founding President) and Norman Selfe. Walker was elected to the Council at its inaugural meeting on 15 March 1901 and was the honorary Treasurer for the Society from 1901 to 1911 before being elected President in 1912 and reelected in 1913. He remained a Councillor for the Society until 1944, retiring in February 1944.

Walker contributed to the collection of the Society's Library, donating a collection of 2,000 glass slides taken on his travels around New South Wales between 1896 and 1905.

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Publications

 * Official history of the first crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813. Sydney: Blue Mountains Centenary Celebrations Committee, 1913.