Denis Walker
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Wilfred Denis Walker (born in East London before 1945) was a Methodist missionary in southern Africa, who left the mission to settle as a minor industrialist in Bulawayo, Rhodesia. He subsequently stood for the Rhodesian parliament in Salisbury later becoming a junior minister for mines, and education, in both Ian Smith's and Bishop Abel Muzorewa's governments.
Following the end of white minority rule and the creation of Zimbabwe he was appointed deputy chairman of parliamentary committees, de facto leader of the opposition to Robert Mugabe's government. However he became 'persona non-grata', and left the country in 1981. He went to Great Britain and settled in Epping, in a house owned by his brother.
He entered into a number of shadowy small business concerns, such as Fax Network International Limited, based in Chingford. He was also the organiser of the South Africa orientated Good Hope Christian Group, and the Rhodesian Christian Group, organisations which were set up to assist European emigres from those countries.
About 1988 he joined the Conservative Monday Club and was introduced by David Storey, then National Chairman, to Gregory Lauder-Frost chairman of the Club's Foreign Affairs Committee. Lauder-Frost was a firm supporter of the Rhodesian Front and apartheid era South Africa and he and Walker quickly became friends. Walker was subsequently introduced to the Monarchist League, of which Lauder-Frost was then the principal officer. By 1990 Walker was a member of the executives of both organisations. The following year the Monday Club's office was moved, at Walker's behest, to his office opposite Higham's Park railway station. In mid-1992 Lauder-Frost, the leading activist of the Monday Club, suddenly resigned because of personal and legal probems, and Denis Walker effectively gained full control of the Monday Club, and, later, the Monarchist League. Both organisations are now effectively administered by him. He now lives at Bishop's Stortford, Herts.
- See Fax Network International booklet of 1989.
