Major Edmund Yeamans Walcott

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Notes

Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson (1821-1896), commissioner of the Metropolitan Police 1869-1886 and previously comptroller of convicts in Western Australia, born in Muddiford Hampshire in 1821, was clearly the namesake of the Edmund Yeamans Walcott of the award, and possibly a relative: his mother is given as Frances-Elizabeth, nee Walcott Sympson, in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Sources

Birman, Wendy, 'Henderson, Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott (1821–1896)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/henderson-sir-edmund-yeamans-walcott-3750/text5907 [accessed 17/10/2012].