Frederick Walton

Bank: National Provincial Bank

Place of work: Rugeley branch

Died: 22 February 1941

Frederick John Walton was born in Falmouth on 16 October 1871, the son of William, a tea merchant, and Jane Walton. 

In October 1889 Walton joined the staff of National Provincial Bank of England as an apprentice in the London Office. In 1891 he was living in Hackney, boarding with a family from Falmouth who had a daughter, Mabel, the same age as him. More than a decade later, when both Frederick and Mabel were in their mid-thirties, they married.

Walton was promoted to clerk a few years after starting with the bank, and worked in a number of branches in England, becoming a cashier, then an accountant, and then an accountant-in-charge. In 1924, which was also the year in which the bank shortened its name to National Provincial Bank, he was promoted to manager of Rugeley branch. He retired from that role in September 1929, at the age of 57, and Frederick and Mabel returned to live in Cornwall.

Mabel, died in 1937, aged 66. Four years later, on 22 February 1941, Frederick Walton was one of three people killed in an air raid on Falmouth. He was 69 years old.