Education
Born in Cheltenham, Knight-Adkin was educated at Cheltenham College and Street Edmund Hall, Oxford.
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Walter Knight-Adkin
Edit ProfileAnglican priest Vicar of Sparkwell
Career
He did his pastoral training at Wells Theological College. Ordained in June 1908 at Street Paul"s Cathedral in London, he was a Curate at Kentish Town before commencing a long period of service as a Chaplain with the Royal Navy rising to become Chaplain of the Fleet from 1929 to 1933, after which he was Dean of Gibraltar. Evacuated to England in 1941 due to illness, he became civilian Vicar of Sparkwell then Chaplain to the Lord Mayor of Bristol at Street Mark's Church, College Green.
He was awarded the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1919 and appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1932.
On 25 January 1929 he was appointed as Honorary Chaplain to Her Majesty King George V. He was an Honorary Canon of Bristol Cathedral and was Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucester and of Bristol. Knight-Adkin was the second son of the Rev Harry Kenrick Knight-Adkin (1851–1928) and Georgina Elizabeth Knight (1849–1930).
He was born in Cheltenham on 17 August 1880. His bride was the daughter of Colonel Alexander Napier Royal Army Medical Corps. They had one child, Peter Napier Knight-Adkin, who died at Portsmouth in 1918.
Walter died at his home at 17 Miles Road, Bristol on 24 May 1957.
He had two sisters, Georgina Noel Knight-Adkin, a photographer in Bristol, and Violet Doris Knight-Adkin who died at the age of 19. 1910 HMS Lancaster
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1920 Registered Nurse College Dartmouth
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1929 Registered Nurse College Greenwich.
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March 24, 1957 (aged 76)