Walter Frederick Ewbank (29 January 1918 – 23 March 2014) was an Anglican priest and author. The son of Sir Robert Benson Ewbank, CSI, CIE, Ewbank was born in

Poona Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...

in 1918 and educated at

Shrewsbury Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...

and Balliol and was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform va ...

in 1947. After a curacy at St Martin's,

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he served incumbencies in

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Casterton, Raughton Head and

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. He was Archdeacon of Westmorland and Furness from 1971 to 1977; and then of

until 1984.‘EWBANK, Ven. Walter Frederick’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 201
accessed 12 Dec 2012
/ref> He died in Carlisle in March 2014, aged 96.

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1918 births 2014 deaths Writers from Pune People educated at Shrewsbury School Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Archdeacons of Westmorland and Furness Archdeacons of Carlisle {{York-archdeacon-stub