WALKER, WILLIAM: Scotch Anglican; b. at Inveramsay (17 m. n.w. of Aberdeen), Aberdeenshire, Nov. 3, 1817. He was educated at King's College, Aberdeen (M.A., University of Aberdeen, 1840), and was ordered deacon in 1832 and ordained priest two years later; was curate of St. Andrew's, Aberdeen (1842-44); rector of Monymusk, Aberdeenshire (1844-1900); and dean of Aberdeen and Orkney united dioceses (1896-1906). He has written Life of Bishops Jolly and Gleig (Edinburgh, 1878); Moses and Deuteronomy (1880 ); Life and Times of the Poet-Priest John Skinner (Aberdeen, 1882); The Kings of Israel (London, 1882); Life and Times of BishoPJohnSkinner(Aberdeen,1887); Reminiscences of Three Churchmen (Primus C. H. Terrot, Bishop M. Russel, and Professor G. Grub; Edinburgh, 1893); and Epochs of Scottish Church History (189?).

WALKER, WILLIAM DAVID: Protestant Episcopal, missionary bishop of North Dakota; b. in the city of New York June 29, 1839. He was graduated from Columbia College, New York City (1859), and from the General Theological Seminary (1862); as deacon, he took charge of Calvary Chapel, New York City (1862); was ordained priest (1863); remained in charge of Calvary Chapel until Feb. i, 1884, when he resigned to enter upon his episcopate, to which he had been consecrated in Dec., 1883. In the exercise of his ministry in Dakota he was the originator of the" cathedral car," by which the services of the church are carried to places where they would not otherwise be rendered.

BxHmoaaeray: W. 8. Perry, The Episcopate in America, p. 281, New York, 1895.

WALKER, WILLISTON: Congregationalist; b. at Portland, Me., July 1, 1860. He was educated at Amherst College (A.B., 1883), Hartford Theological Seminary (graduated, 1886), and the University of Leipsic (Ph.D., 1888); was associate in history at. Bryn Mawr College (1888-89), professor of Germanic and Western church history in Hartford Theological Seminary (1889-1901); since 1901 he has been professor of ecclesiastical history in Yale University. He has written The Increase of Royal Power under Philip Augustus (Leipsic, 1888); The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism (New York, 1893); A History of the Congregational Church es in the United States (1894); The Reformation (1900); Ten New England Leaders (Boston, 1901); John Calvin (New York, 1906); and Greatest Men of the Christian Church (Chicago, 1908).

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