James Walkey

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The Venerable James Rowland Walkey [1] CBE, was an amateur sportsman in the first half of the twentieth century who later became an eminent [2] Anglican Chaplain. [3]

He was born into a military family on 10 April 1880 [4] and educated at Plymouth College and Christ's College, Cambridge. During his varsity years he was awarded a Blue for Rugby and, after joining the British Army as a chaplain, was its 100-yard champion in 1906. In that year he married Bijou Frances Paske [5] daughter of the Colonel Commandant of the Notts and Derbyshire Regiment with whom he had one son and six daughters. He was mentioned in despatches during World War I and at its conclusion joined the fledgling Royal Air Force Chaplaincy Service. After serving at Uxbridge (during which time he became its Fencing champion) he held posts [6] in Iraq and the Middle East before becoming an Honorary Chaplain to the King [7] and eventually its Archdeacon [8] (Chaplain-in-Chief). [9] Later he held incumbencies at Wateringbury, Worting, [10] Angmering, [11] Haversham and Moreton. He retired just a year before his death on 8 January 1960. [12]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Genealogical web site
  2. ↑ London Gazette
  3. ↑ airmans guide to The Bible
  4. ↑ His father was Colonel Rowland Walkey, RA > "Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN   978-0-19-954087-7
  5. ↑ Pask family web site
  6. ↑ LG
  7. ↑ Honorary Chaplain to the King
  8. ↑ "New Chaplain-In-Chief To R.A.F.", The Times , Friday, 3 November 1933; pg. 16; Issue 46592; col A
  9. ↑ Retirement
  10. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
  11. ↑ Angmering Parish Incumbents
  12. ↑ "Obituary Rev. J. R. Walkey", The Times , Thursday, 14 January 1960; pg. 17; Issue 54668; col B
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Sidney Lampard Clarke 		Chaplain-in-Chief of the RAF
1933–1940		Succeeded by
Maurice Henry Edwards


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