Born: 1769, Sil­ver­mines, Coun­ty Tip­per­a­ry, Ire­land.

Died: Oc­to­ber 23, 1833.

Educated at Trin­i­ty Coll­ege, Dub­lin, Ire­land, Walk­er grad­u­at­ed in 1790, and was elect­ed a Fel­low on tak­ing Ho­ly Or­ders in 1791. Se­ced­ing from the Church of Eng­land, he re­signed his Fel­low­ship in 1804 and found­ed a sect called the “Walk­er­ites.” He es­tab­lished a cha­pel at Staf­ford Street (Dub­lin?) and “The Church of God.” He moved to Lon­don in 1819, but lat­er re­turned to Dub­lin. Walker’s works in­clude:

• Letter to Alex Knox (Dub­lin: 1803)
• 1st, 2nd, and 6th Books of Eu­clid, 1808
• Lucian Se­lect­ed (Glas­gow: 1816; 9th edition, Dub­lin: 1856)
• Horatian Me­tres (Glas­gow: 1822)
• First Six Books of Eu­clid, and a trea­tise on trig­o­nom­e­try (Lon­don: 1827)
• Essays, 1838
• Correspondence, 1838

Sources

Hymns

1. Thou God of Power and God of Love