Walter Walsh (23 January 1847 – 25 February 1912) was an English

Protestant Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...

author and journalist. He is best known for his work ''The Secret History of the Oxford Movement'', first published in London by

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in 1897, which ran through several editions and remains in print in the 21st century. The success of the book, a critique of the

Oxford Movement The Oxford Movement was a movement of high church members of the Church of England which began in the 1830s and eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement, whose original devotees were mostly associated with the University of O ...

, led to him becoming a Fellow of the

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. Walsh was a founding member of the Imperial Protestant Federation in 1896. He also wrote for the ''

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'' and the ''Protestant Observer''. In 1905 he founded the journal ''Grievances in Ireland''. Walsh, a lay Anglican, is sometimes confused with his Scottish contemporary, the Rev. Dr.

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(1857–1931), a minister and peace advocate; the two men do not appear to have been related.

Bibliography

* ''The Secret History of the Oxford Movement'' (1897) *''The History of the Romeward Movement in the Church of England, 1833–1864'' (1900) *''The Religious Life and Influence of Queen Victoria'' (1902) *''The Jesuits in Great Britain: an Historical Inquiry into their Political Influence'' (1903) *''The Women Martyrs of the Reformation'' (1905) *''England's Fight with the Papacy: a Political History'' (1912)

References

External links

Works by Walter Walsh (1847–1912)
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