Introduction

Introduction

Biography

About 1889, Wal­ton found­ed the Sailor’s Rest of the South Af­ri­can Ge­ne­ral Mis­sion (SAGM) in Dur­ban, Na­tal. This in­ter­de­nom­in­ation­al ef­fort min­is­tered to the spi­rit­ual needs of sea­men, whe­ther on board when in port or in jail.

Edwin Lew­is Neil­son, who car­ried the ti­tle Chap­lain, suc­ceeded Wal­ton about 1901.

During the Bo­er War, Wal­ton dis­trib­ut­ed to Eng­lish sol­diers Bi­bles which had a la­bel inside the front co­ver giving Wal­ton’s re­si­dence in 1900 as Dur­ban, Na­tal.

Walton’s mis­sion­ary work is known most­ly from his pub­li­ca­tions.

In 1905, he wrote a 3-page ar­ti­cle based on his jour­neys through south­east­ern Af­ri­ca, in what was then called Brit­ish Ama­ton­ga­land. In the ar­ti­cle, his ti­tle was shown as Su­per­in­ten­dent of the Brit­ish Af­ri­ca Ge­ne­ral Mis­sion.

Works

• Rest and Vic­to­ry (Lon­don: Mar­shall Bro­thers, 1885)
• Boer War Sol­dier’s Marked New Tes­ta­ment—Sou­ve­nir Bi­ble (Lon­don: But­ler & Tan­ner, 1899)
• British Ama­ton­ga­land, South­eas­tern Af­ri­ca, in Rev. Arthur T. Pier­son, D.D. The Mis­sion­ary Re­view of the World, Vol. XIII, pp. 758–60, October, 1900 (New York: Funk & Wag­nalls, 1900)
• At La­dy­smith, S.A.G.M. Book­let Series (Wim­ble­don, Eng­land: South Af­ri­ca Ge­ne­ral Mis­sion, 1902)
• Seven Years in Swa­z­iland, S.A.G.M. Book­let Ser­ies (Wim­ble­don, Eng­land: South Afri­ca Ge­ne­ral Mis­sion, 1902)
• The Sur­round­ing of Cronjie, S.A.G.M. Booklet Series (Wim­ble­don, Eng­landEng­land: South Afri­ca Ge­ne­ral Mis­sion 1902)
• With General Buller’s Force in Natal, S.A.G.M. Booklet Series (Wim­ble­don, England: South Afri­ca Ge­ne­ral Mis­sion, 1902)
• The South Af­ri­ca Ge­ne­ral Mission, in Mis­sion­ary Re­view, 18 vol­umes, pp. 362–64, May 1905. Listed in W. L. Fletch­er and H. E. Haines, The An­nu­a­l Lib­ra­ry Index (New York: Of­fice of the Pub­lish­ers’ Week­ly, 1905)