Introduction

Biography

Walker gra­du­at­ed from Tri­ni­ty Col­lege, Dub­lin, Ire­land, 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 the Walk­er­ite sect. He es­tab­lished a cha­pel at Staf­ford Street (Dub­lin?) and The Church of God. He moved to Lon­don in 1819, but lat­er returned to Dub­lin.

Works

• 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