Peter Knight Walker (6 December 1919 – 28 December 2010) was an
Anglican
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bishop.
Early life and education
Walker was educated at
Leeds Grammar School and
The Queen's College, Oxford.
During the
Second World War, he served in the
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
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(RNVR). He was then a
teacher at
The King's School, Peterborough and
Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
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Ordained ministry
Walker was
ordained in 1954. His first ordained ministry position was a
curacy at
Hemel Hempstead, after which he was
fellow,
dean and
lecturer
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at
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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. From 1962 to 1972 he was
principal of
Westcott House, Cambridge.
In 1972 he was consecrated to the
episcopate as the
Suffragan Bishop of Dorchester. In 1977 he was
translated to become the
Bishop of Ely
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, a position he held until his retirement in 1989.
Death
He died in Cambridge on 28 December 2010, aged 91.
[''Daily Telegraph'', Obituaries, p. 31, ibid.]
References
1919 births
2010 deaths
People educated at Leeds Grammar School
Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Anglican bishops of Dorchester
Bishops of Ely
20th-century Church of England bishops
Staff of Westcott House, Cambridge
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