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Born in Yorkshire in 1911. Studied at London and Leeds Universities. He served in Burma and India during the Second World War before emigrating to Lesotho in 1947, where he was Deputy Director of Education until 1960. In recognition of his work there he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Thereafter he lived in Cape Town and until his retirement he was Managing Director of the publishing house of Longman Southern Africa. He was well known for his pioneering studies of the vernacular architecture of many countries in Africa, Europe and the Far East. A founder and an Honorary Life Member of the Vernacular Architecture Group in Britain, he was also Honorary Life President of the Vernacular Architecture Society of South Africa , of which he had been a founder member in 1964. James Walton was the author of over two hundred papers in various journals and collected works, and of several books. For his services to the study of vernacular architecture he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1953. He also received the Cape Tercentenary Foundation's Award of Merit in 1973 for ‘outstanding services to vernacular architecture in the Cape of Good Hope’, the Institute of South African Architects' Architectural Writers and Critics Award, the Gold Medal of the National Monuments Council in 1981, the Gold Medal of the Simon van der Stel Foundation in 1987, the Gold Medal of the Genootskap vir Afrikaanse Volkskunde in 1992, and the Cape Times Centenary Medal. In 1987 the University of Natal conferred on him an honorary doctorate. James Walton donated his invaluable collection to University of Stellenbosch for use by researchers. The complete collection consists of manuscripts, drawings, photographs, newsletters, lectures, portfolios, albums, plans, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and brochures. Items in this collection are subject to copyright protection. Reproduction of the content, or any part of it, other than for research, academic or non-commercial use is prohibited without prior consent from the copyright holder. See his biography on the website of the Vernacular Architecture Society of SA (VASSA) and the VASSA Journal No 1, July 1999. Books citing WALTON
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