Biography

Herbert Walton was a military surgeon with the Indian Medical Service. After training in London and Cambridge he entered the Service in 1896, distinguishing himself in military medicine. He served in several campaigns and was appointed to the Tibet Frontier Commission of 1903-1904, during which he collected plants on his way from Sikkim to Lhasa. The Commission, led by Sir Francis Younghusband, became notorious for the massacre that subsequently occurred as the party was seen to make an incursion into the territory of hostile Lamas. As well as collecting botanical specimens, Walton made ornithological observations during the expedition and completed an account of the birds of southern Tibet in the journal Ibis (1906). He also contributed to the official reports of the Younghusband expedition. Walton was made lieutenant-colonel in 1916, with which rank he retired in 1921. He died in Godalming, Surrey, on 4 May 1938.

Sources:
Anon., 1938, British Medical Journal, 1938: 1240
C.E.C. Fischer, 1938, "Three New Species from Tibet", Kew Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, 1938(7): 286.

Biography

Herbert Walton was a military surgeon with the Indian Medical Service. After training in London and Cambridge he entered the Service in 1896, distinguishing himself in military medicine. He served in several campaigns and was appointed to the Tibet Frontier Commission of 1903-1904, during which he collected plants on his way from Sikkim to Lhasa. The Commission, led by Sir Francis Younghusband, became notorious for the massacre that subsequently occurred as the party was seen to make an incursion into the territory of hostile Lamas. As well as collecting botanical specimens, Walton made ornithological observations during the expedition and completed an account of the birds of southern Tibet in the journal Ibis (1906). He also contributed to the official reports of the Younghusband expedition. Walton was made lieutenant-colonel in 1916, with which rank he retired in 1921. He died in Godalming, Surrey, on 4 May 1938.

Sources:
Anon., 1938, British Medical Journal, 1938: 1240
C.E.C. Fischer, 1938, "Three New Species from Tibet", Kew Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, 1938(7): 286.