Walter Garstang - Early Life

Early Life

Walter Garstang was born on 9 February 1868 as the eldest son of Dr Walter Garstang of Blackburn and his wife Matilda Mary Wardley, and older brother of the archaeologist John Garstang.

In 1895 he married Lucy Ackroyd; they had one son, Walter Lucian Garstang, and five daughters.

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