Izaak 1593-1683 Walton

The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Hooker, etc., was published in 167o. This, together with the life of Robert Sanderson was edited by George Saintsbury in 1927. All these subjects were endeared to the biographer by a certain gentleness of disposition and cheerful piety; three of them at least—Donne, Wotton and Herbert—were anglers. Their lives were evidently written with loving pains, in the same leisurely fashion as his Angler, and like it are of value less as exact knowledge than as harmonious and complete pictures of character. Walton also rendered affectionate service to the memory of his friends Sir John Skeffington and John Chalkhill, editing with prefatory notices Skeffington's Hero of Lorenzo in 1652 and Chalkhill's Thealma and Clearchus a few months before his own death in 1683. His poems and prose fragments were collected in 1878 under the title of W altoniana.

The best-known old edition of the

Angler is J. Major's (2nd ed., 1824, repr. 1927) . A facsimile of the first edition was reprinted in 1928 by A. and C. Black. The book was edited by Andrew Lang in 1896, and various modern editions have appeared. The standard biography is that by Sir Harris Nicolas, prefixed to an edition of the Angler (1836) . There are notices also, with additional scraps of fact, annexed to two American editions, Bethune's (1847) and Dowling's (1857). An edition of Walton's Lives, by G. Sampson, appeared in 1903. See also T. Westwood, The Chronicle of the "Compleat Angler" of Izaak Walton and C. Cotton (1864) ; Izaak Walton and his Friends, by S. Martin (1903) ; E. Marston, Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton: etc. (1908) ; R. B. Marston, Walton and some earlier writers on Fish and Fishing (1909).

urban district, in the Fylde parlia mentary division, Lancashire, England. Pop. (1931) 12,718 , area 4,656 acres. The church of St. Leonard was originally erected in

the nth century, the earliest portions of the present building being Perpendicular in style. Cotton-spinning is carried on. Roman remains have been found here, probably indicating a road side post. The manor of Walton was granted by Henry de Lacy about 113o to Robert Banastre. It afterwards passed to the Langtons, and about 1592 to the Hoghtons of Hoghton. Walton was the principal scene of the great battle of Preston (Aug. 17, 1648). In 1715 the passage of the Ribble was bravely defended against the Jacobites by Parson Woods and his parishioners of Atherton (q.v.).

an urban district in the Chertsey parliamentary division of Surrey, England, pleasantly situated on the right bank of the Thames, 17 m. W.S.W. from London by the S. railway. Pop. (1931), 17,953. The church of St. Mary has late Norman portions, and contains numerous memorials, including examples of the work of Chantrey and Roubiliac. A verse inscribed upon a pillar is reputed to be Queen Elizabeth's profession of faith as regards transubstantiation. The queen was a frequent resident at Henry VIII.'s palace of Oatlands park, which was destroyed during the civil wars of the 17th century.

or a watering-place in Essex, 711 m. E.N.E. from London. Pop. (1930 3,o66. This portion of the coast has suffered from en croachment of the sea, and a part of the old village of Walton, with the church, was engulfed towards the end of the 18th century. On the east side of the town is the open North sea, with a fine stretch of sand and shingle, affording good bathing. To the west is an irregular inlet studded with low islands, known as Hanford water. The Naze is a promontory 2 m. N. by E. of the town, and in the vicinity of Walton are low cliffs exhibiting the fossiliferous red crag formation.