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Tom Walker (priest)

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Thomas Overington Walker (7 December 1933 – 26 May 2016) was an English Anglican priest and author.[1]

Biography

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Walker was educated at Keble College, Oxford and Oak Hill Theological College and ordained in 1960. After curacies in Woking and St Leonards he was travelling secretary of the Inter-Varsity Fellowship from 1964 until 1967;[2] Succentor at Birmingham Cathedral; and then vicar of Harborne from 1970 until his appointment as archdeacon.[3]

Walker has been named in connection with sexual abuse of a female church worker during his time at Harborne.[4][5] He died on 26 May 2016, at the age of 82.[2]

Church of England titles[6]
Preceded by Archdeacon of Nottingham
1991–1996
Succeeded by

References

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  1. ^ Among others he has written "Renew Us By Your Spirit", 1982; "The Occult Web", 1987: "From Here to Heaven", 1987; and "Small Streams Big Rivers", 1991 > British Library web site accessed 17:53GMT Thursday 29 January 2015
  2. ^ a b "Walker, Ven. Thomas Overington". WHO WAS WHO 2024. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
  3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 p849 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0
  4. ^ Hardy, Jack (5 December 2018). "Case of vicar said to have stripped off clothes in front of woman 'hushed up by Church of England'". The Telegraph.
  5. ^ "Survivor on national safeguarding panel slams Birmingham diocese over redacted report".
  6. ^ "The Venerable Thomas Overington Walker". 3 June 2016.