Tom Walker (priest)

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

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]

Notes
  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. ‘WALKER, Ven. Thomas Overington’, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, Oct 2014 accessed 29 Jan 2015
  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.


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