Tom Walker (priest)

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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]

Church of England titles [6]
Preceded by Archdeacon of Nottingham
1991–1996		Succeeded by

Notes

  1. ↑ Amongst 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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