Rev. Walters in Foxworthy, 1884

The Rev. Walters and his daughers, Elizabeth Ann and Katherine Mary, at the door of Foxworthy 1884. He was a Wesleyan minister and President-elect of the Wesleyan Ministry, but a severe railway accident prevented him from taking up this post. In 1873, due in part to his wife's poor heath, he went to South Africa as the first non-conformist Naval Chaplain. His wife died there aged 40 and he returned to England, renting Foxworthy from the Nosworthy family in 1878 where he and his daughters lived until 1885 when it was purchased by Arthur Hunt.