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Life
1768-1833; founder of Walkerites; ed. TCD, schol. 1788, fellow, 1791-1804 [DB, 1800]; ord., abandoned Anglicanism and founded extreme Calvinist sect, disbelieving in all clergy; admitted his position to the Provost of TCD, and summarily expelled from college, 8 Oct. 1804; est. a chapel at Stafford St.; fnd. ‘The Church of God’, with followers, Dublin 1804; lived private tutoring for university courses, 1804-19; moved to London, 1819;
received £600 pension from TCD in amends for harsh treatment, 1833; returned to Dublin; d. 23 Oct.; works incl. Letter to Alex. Knox (Dublin 1803); Horatian Metres (Glasgow 1822); ed. Livy, 7 vols. (Dublin 1747-1813); 1st, 2nd, and 6th Book of Euclid (1808); First Six Bks. of Euclid with treatise on trigonometry (Lon. 1827); Lucian Selected (Glasgow 1816; 9th edn. Dublin 1856); also wrote the hymn “Thou God of Power and God of Love”, for opening of Bethesda Chapel, frequently collected. ODNB.
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