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