Background
WHICKER, Walter George Samuel was born in 1865. Son of S. G. Whicker of Guernsey and South Africa.
WHICKER, Walter George Samuel was born in 1865. Son of S. G. Whicker of Guernsey and South Africa.
Studied at Elizabeth College, Guernsey. Corpus Cliristi College, Oxford (Scholar). Honours—1st Class Classical Moderations (Oxford), 2nd Class Mathematics Moderations (Oxford), 2nd Class Classics Greats.
Master of Arts.
Ordained 1888; curate at Old Basing till 1893. Educational work in Oxford, 1893-1898. Curate, St. Clement’s, Oxford, 1895-1898.
Rector of St. Thomas’ and Chaplain, Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, 1898-1910. Honourable Canon of Birmingham, 1909-1910. Vicar of St. Jude’s, Wolverhampton, since 1910.