Walter Knight-Adkin

{{Short description|English Anglican priest}}

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{{Infobox Christian leader

| type = Priest

| honorific-prefix = Very Reverend

| name = Walter Kenrick Knight-Adkin

| honorific-suffix = CB OBE DL KHCh RN

| title = Archdeacon of the Royal Navy

| image = WKKA.jpg

| appointed = {{Plainlist|

  • Chaplain of the Fleet
  • Honorary Chaplain to the King
  • Dean of Gibraltar}}

| term = {{Plainlist|

  • 1929–1933
  • 1929–1933
  • 1933–1941}}

| ordination = June 1908, St Paul's Cathedral, London

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|08|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1957|05|24|1889|08|17|df=y}}

| death_place = Bristol, Gloucestershire, England

| nationality = British

| religion = Church of England

| parents = {{Plainlist|

  • Rev Harry Kenrick Adkin (1851–1927)
  • Georgina Elizabeth Knight (1849–1930)}}

| spouse = Elizabeth Cuff Napier (1891–1984)

| children = Peter Napier Knight-Adkin (1917–1918)

| occupation = Naval chaplain

| education = Cheltenham College

| alma_mater = St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Wells Theological College

}}

{{Portal|Christianity}}

Walter Kenrick Knight-Adkin {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB|OBE|DL}} (17 August 1880 – 24 May 1957) was an Anglican priest in the first half of the 20th century.{{Cite web |url=http://geocities.com/CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Gibraltar.html |title=Role overseas |access-date=7 October 2010 |archive-date=30 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090730200548/http://geocities.com/CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Gibraltar.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}

Ecclesiastical career

Born in Cheltenham, Knight-Adkin was educated at Cheltenham College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford."Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}} He did his pastoral training at Wells Theological College. Ordained in June 1908 at St Paul's Cathedral in London, he was a Curate at Kentish Town before commencing a long period of service on 31 April 1910{{London Gazette |issue=28475 |date=14 March 1911 |page=2148 }} as a Chaplain with the Royal Navy rising to become Chaplain of the FleetWith the title of Archdeacon of the Royal Navy from 1929 to 1933, after which he was Dean of Gibraltar.{{Cite web |url=http://www.gibconnect.com/~holytrinity/lower.php?filename=deans.php |title=Deans of Gibraltar |access-date=29 October 2008 |archive-date=11 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711092855/http://www.gibconnect.com/~holytrinity/lower.php?filename=deans.php |url-status=dead }} Evacuated to England in 1941 due to illness, he became civilian Vicar of Sparkwell then Chaplain to the Lord Mayor of Bristol at St Mark`s Church, College Green.

He was awarded the OBE 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 HM King George V.{{London Gazette |issue=33506|date=14 June 1929 |page=3943 }} He was an Honorary Canon of Portsmouth Cathedral"Rev. W. K. Knightadkin." Times [London, England] 27 May 1957 and was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucester and of Bristol on 3 June 1950.{{London Gazette |issue=38963 |date=7 July 1950 |page=3512 }}

Family

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.The Times, Monday, 27 May 1957; pg. 14; Issue 53851; col E

He married Elizabeth Cuff Napier (1891–1984) at St Andrew's-by-the-Green, Glasgow on 20 December 1915. His bride was the daughter of Colonel Alexander Napier RAMC. 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. His wife was to live a further 27 years.The Times, Wednesday, 21 November 1984; pg. 34; Issue 61992; col A Deaths:Elizabeth Cuff Knight-Adkin

His elder brother was the war poet James Harry Knight-Adkin. His younger brother, Frederick John Knight-Adkin, after a period working as a journalist and author in New York, emigrated to Argentina where he became a successful cattle rancher. He had two sisters, Georgina Noel Knight-Adkin, a photographer in Bristol, and Violet Doris Knight-Adkin who died at the age of 19.{{Cite web |url=http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/WynnHall/james.html |title=Descendants of James Kenrick (May 1757 - 26 Sep 1824) |access-date=4 August 2010 |archive-date=13 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100813121229/http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/WynnHall/james.html |url-status=dead }}

Naval career

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