His first wife was Rachel Floud, a descendant of the ill-fated Cranmer; and his second was Anne Ken, the half-sister of the saintly Bishop Ken.

Whatever may have been his deficiencies of early education, he was so constant and varied a reader that he made amends for these.
THE COMPLETE ANGLER .-- His first and most popular work was _The Complete Angler, or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation_.

It has been the delight of all sorts of people since, and has gone through more than forty respectable editions in England, besides many in America.

Many of these editions are splendidly illustrated and sumptuous.

The dialogues are pleasant and natural, and his enthusiasm for the art of angling is quite contagious.
HIS LIVES .-- Nor is Walton less esteemed by a smaller but more appreciative circle for his beautiful and finished biographies or _Lives_ of Dr.
Donne, Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, and Bishop Robert Sanderson.
Here Walton has bestowed and received fame: the simple but exquisite portraitures of these holy and worthy men have made them familiar to posterity; and they, in turn, by the virtues which Walton's pen has made manifest, have given distinction to the hand which portrayed them.
Walton's good life was lengthened out to fourscore and ten.