The Venerable James Rowland Walkey Genealogical web site CBE, was an amateur sportsman in the first half of the twentieth century who later became an eminentLondon Gazette Anglican Chaplain.airmans guide to The Bible
He was born into a military family on 10 April 1880His father was Colonel Rowland Walkey, RA > "Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 and educated at Plymouth College and Christ's College, Cambridge. During his varsity years he was awarded a Blue for Rugby and, after joining the British Army as a chaplain, was its 100-yard champion in 1906. In that year he married Bijou Frances PaskePask family web site daughter of the Colonel Commandant of the Notts and Derbyshire Regiment with whom he had one son and six daughters. He was mentioned in despatches during World War I and at its conclusion joined the fledgling Royal Air Force Chaplaincy Service. After serving at Uxbridge (during which time he became its Fencing champion) he held postsLG in Iraq and the Middle East before becoming an Honorary Chaplain to the KingHonorary Chaplain to the King and eventually its Archdeacon"New Chaplain-In-Chief To R.A.F.", The Times, Friday, 3 November 1933; pg. 16; Issue 46592; col A (Chaplain-in-Chief).Retirement Later he held incumbencies at Wateringbury, Worting,Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947 Angmering,Angmering Parish Incumbents Haversham and Moreton. He retired just a year before his death on 8 January 1960."Obituary Rev. J. R. Walkey", The Times, Thursday, 14 January 1960; pg. 17; Issue 54668; col B
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