Sir Jonah Walker-Smith, 2nd Baronet 1939-2024

 Sir Jonah Walker-Smith, 2nd Baronet, a barrister and sometime a Recorder of the Crown Court, died 9 March, 2024, aged 84.

He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, 1963, and appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court in 1980.

John Jonah Walker-Smith was born 6 September, 1939, son of Derek Colclough Walker-Smith, TD, QC, PC (born 13 Apr, 1910), and his wife the former Dorothy Etherton (who died 8 March, 1999), scion of that landed gentry family. His father was Conservative MP for Hertfordshire East 1955-83, Minister of Health, 1957-60, created a baronet, 18 Aug, 1960, and a life peer, as Baron Broxbourne, on quitting the Commons, 21 September, 1983.

Jonah Walker-Smith succeeded to his father's baronetcy, 22 January, 1992. He married 26 Oct, 1974, Aileen Marie Smith, daughter of Joseph Smith, by whom he had issue, a son, Dan, and a daughter, Charmian (born 23 Aug, 1977).

The son, Daniel Derek Walker-Smith (born 26 March, 1980), succeeds as third baronet.

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