Mr. Cullen said his friend never had any trouble having his sidewalk shoveled after a snowstorm.
"He'd come out with drinks, so consequently people were lining up to shovel his walkways," Mr. Cullen said, laughing.
Mr. Walton was an avid collector of first-day cover stamps, maps and World War I Goss commemorative china.
"He was a man of great knowledge and repartee," Mr. Cullen recalled.
True to his British roots, friends said, Mr. Walton embraced the life and works of Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
In the 1990s, he established the Baltimore Burns Society and reveled in hosting the society's annual banquet in his Northwood home that often included 45 guests or more.
"His life epitomizes Robert Burns' sentiment, 'that Man to Man, the world o'er / Shall brothers be for a' that,' " Mr. Cullen said.
Mr. Walton also enjoyed spending time at a second home in the Bordeaux region of France.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Sterling-Ashton-Schwab-Witzke Funeral Home, 1630 Edmondson Ave., Catonsville.
Also surviving, are three daughters, Rachel Walton Bream of London, Jessica Walton Ussher of Bristol, England, and Cecile Marie Walton of Baltimore; his mother, Hilda Walton of Coventry; two sisters, Claire Smith of Coventry and Amanda Walton of Serbia; and three grandchildren. A 1968 marriage to the former Marianne Scott ended in divorce.
