About Madeleine Mary Walker

Madeleine was a pupil at St Patrick’s RC School Thornaby and St Mary’s Convent, Middlesbrough where she obtained 9 passes in GCE in 1956. She was a student at Constantine Technical College, Middlesbrough where she gained three further GCEs, mathematics, physics and chemistry in 1958. Following that, she was a student at Stockton Billingham Technical College where she studied and gained three advanced levels in mathematics, physics and chemistry in 1959.

She received a First degree a BSc Durham University in 1962, MSc from London University in 1969 and a further MSc from Durham University in 1984. Madeleine was elected a member of the British Computer Society in 1985, and became Chartered Engineer and managing director of her own engineering company.

She led a university expedition to Lapland whilst at Durham. Madeleine became a member of the teaching staff at Darwin College, a university in Australia for many years and secured dual nationality; Australian and British.

Madeleine died in her fifties from cancer when her parents established the Madeleine Mary Walker Foundation from monies raised through her career, and established the Madeleine Mary Walker Science Centre at Stockton Riverside College in 2003 with a £50,000 donation from the foundation.