Air Marshal Sir John Walker, who has died aged 88, was a Cold War fighter pilot and one of the RAF’s foremost thinkers on the employment of offensive air power, who rose to become Chief of Defence ...
Despite this, it was John's son, Alexander Walker ... at From Square Bottles to the Striding Man: How Johnnie Walker Became a ...
Walker did not patent his invention. Samuel Jones from London copied his idea and marketed his matches as "Lucifer's"!In 1826, John Walker, a chemist in Stockton on Tees, discovered through lucky ...