Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Valentine Augustus Walker (15 Feb 1890 - 17 Mar 1969) (also known as Val A Walker and Val Enson) was an English magician, escape artist and illusion designer. He was born in Moseley, Birmingham to Joseph Walker, a landscape gardener, and his wife Emma. Val Walker worked as an electrical apparatus maker, later serving in the Royal Navy and was billed as the \"Wizard of the Navy\". Walker is credited as the designer of the Radium Girl illusion. His most famous escape was \"The Tank in the Thames\" where he was bolted in to a steel tank lowered in to the river Thames from the Sea-Scout Training Ship, Northampton on the 20th August 1920. He escaped in 20 seconds. He was married in 1913 to Ethel Dora Harris, the daughter of Thomas Daniel Harris and his wife Emma Ellson. He retired from the stage in 1924, returning briefly in 1939, under the name of 'Val Enson', with an illusion called \"The Aquamarine Girl\""@en }
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- Val_Walker abstract "Valentine Augustus Walker (15 Feb 1890 - 17 Mar 1969) (also known as Val A Walker and Val Enson) was an English magician, escape artist and illusion designer. He was born in Moseley, Birmingham to Joseph Walker, a landscape gardener, and his wife Emma. Val Walker worked as an electrical apparatus maker, later serving in the Royal Navy and was billed as the \"Wizard of the Navy\". Walker is credited as the designer of the Radium Girl illusion. His most famous escape was \"The Tank in the Thames\" where he was bolted in to a steel tank lowered in to the river Thames from the Sea-Scout Training Ship, Northampton on the 20th August 1920. He escaped in 20 seconds. He was married in 1913 to Ethel Dora Harris, the daughter of Thomas Daniel Harris and his wife Emma Ellson. He retired from the stage in 1924, returning briefly in 1939, under the name of 'Val Enson', with an illusion called \"The Aquamarine Girl\"".