Family and Education
Walters was born in Ewell, Surrey, the son of William Melmoth Walters (1835–1926), a solicitor and member of an old Somerset family, and Marian Eleanor Leggatt (b.1840). He attended Charterhouse School where he played for the school football team in 1882 and 1883, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge University, where he won a blue in each of the years from 1884 to 1887.
In 1892, he married Amy Constance Parbury, the daughter of G. W. Parbury, of Ifield, Crawley and they had issue: Amy (born 1894), Anthony (born 1896), Herbert (born 1900) and Marion Elizabeth (born 1901).
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