Peter Walker

Who was Peter Walker?

Peter Knight Walker was an Anglican bishop.

Walker was educated at Leeds Grammar School and The Queen's College, Oxford. During the Second World War he served in the RNVR and was then a teacher at The King's School, Peterborough and Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood before ordination in 1954. His first ordained ministry position was a curacy at Hemel Hempstead, after which he was fellow, dean and lecturer at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. From 1962 to 1972 he was principal of Westcott House, Cambridge.

In 1972 he was ordained to the episcopate as the Suffragan Bishop of Dorchester. In 1977 he was translated to become the Bishop of Ely, a position he held until his retirement in 1989.