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The brand’s namesake John Walker established the business that would later become Johnnie Walker at the young age of 14. Following the death of his father and the subsequent sale of the family farm in 1819, a very young John Walker (born on 25th July 1805) set up a grocer’s shop in the thriving Scottish town Kilmarnock where he would later blend his own whisky.