William Walker (priest)

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William Walker was Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1896 [1] to 1906. [2]

He was born into a farming family in the Garioch and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and the city's university. [3] After a curacy at St Andrew, Aberdeen he was Rector of Monymusk from 1844 to 1900. He died on 11 March 1911.

Notes

  1. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  2. "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" p517 Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN   0-567-08746-8
  3. ‘WALKER, Very Rev. William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 16 Oct 2013
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Preceded by Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney
18961906
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