Peter Walker (bishop)

Peter Knight Walker (6 December 1919 – 28 December 2010) was an Anglican bishop.[1]

Walker was educated at Leeds Grammar School and The Queen's College, Oxford.[2][3] During the Second World War he served in the RNVR and was then a teacher at The King's School, Peterborough and Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood before ordination in 1954. His first ordained ministry position was a curacy at Hemel Hempstead, after which he was fellow, dean and lecturer at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[4] From 1962 to 1972 he was principal of Westcott House, Cambridge.[5]

In 1972 he was ordained to the episcopate as the Suffragan Bishop of Dorchester.[6] In 1977 he was translated to become the Bishop of Ely, a position he held until his retirement in 1989.[7]

Death

He died in Cambridge on 28 December 2010, aged 91.[8]

References

  1. ^ NPG details
  2. ^ The Times, 18 November 1937; pg. 19; Issue 47845; col B, University News- Scolarships
  3. ^ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black: 2008, ISBN 9780713672576
  4. ^ Daily Telegraph, Obituaries, p. 31, "Bishop of Ely who oversaw the restoration of his cathedral and won the praise of W H Auden", issue no 48, p. 397, 7 January 2011
  5. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory Lambeth, Church House 1976 ISBN 0108153674
  6. ^ The Times, 10 February 1972; p16; Issue 58398; col D, New Bishop of Dorchester
  7. ^ Genuki
  8. ^ Daily Telegraph, Obituaries, p. 31, ibid.
Church of England titles
Preceded by
David Goodwin Loveday
Bishop of Dorchester
1972 – 1977
Succeeded by
Conrad John Eustace Meyer
Preceded by
Edward James Keymer Roberts
Bishop of Ely
1977 – 1989
Succeeded by
Stephen Whitefield Sykes