Scottish-born banker and businessman who used his money to support many Sydney charities.
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Born
Leith, Scotland
03 May 1804
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A businessman, pastoralist and philanthropist, Thomas Walker used the fortune he'd made in the colony to endow hospitals, establish cultural institutions and support the poor.
One of Sydney's grandest estates, and a centre of high society into the 1920s, Yaralla was the home of Thomas and Eadith Walker, noted philanthropists.
