Tom Walker (priest) explained

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]

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Notes and References

  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 Directory]
  4. News: Case of vicar said to have stripped off clothes in front of woman 'hushed up by Church of England'. The Telegraph. 5 December 2018. Hardy. Jack.
  5. Web site: Survivor on national safeguarding panel slams Birmingham diocese over redacted report.
  6. Web site: The Venerable Thomas Overington Walker. 3 June 2016.

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