WALTON, William Claiborne, clergyman, born in Hanover county, Virginia, 4 November, 1793 ; died in Hartford, Connecticut, 18 February, 1834. He was the son of a blacksmith, and received but few advantages of early education, but afterward studied at Hampden Sidney college, and was licensed as a preacher of the Presbyterian church, 22 October, 1814, at Fredericksburg. He afterward preached at Smithfield and Berryville, Virginia, at Washington, D. C., for a short period in 1821, and in February, 1823, became pastor of the 3d Presbyterian church, Baltimore. In May, 1827, he was installed as pastor of the 2d Presbyterian church at Alexandria, which charge he retained till 1832. In November, 1830, he was deputed by the presbytery of the District of Columbia to attend the annual meeting of the synod of Virginia, and in 1832 he was chosen missionary agent and evangelist for the presbyteries of East and West Hanover. Subsequently he became pas-tot of the Free church, Hartford, Connecticut He was remarkably successful as an evangelist, and contributed in a considerable degree to the revival of religion in the Presbyterian, Congregational, and other churches during 1831, whereby more than 100,000 persons were brought into church communion. He published a small volume of sermons, besides separate discourses, and a sketch of the life of his daughter, Margaret Ann. A poem commemorative of him was written by Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney after his death, and his life was published by Joshua N. Danforth (New York, 1837).