Robert Walker [Wonderful Walker]

(1710-1802)

NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: Walker, Robert [called Wonderful Walker] (1710–1802), Church of England clergyman LBT ID: RoWalke1802a	B/BAP: 1710-02-21 DIED: 1802-06-26
SOURCES: DNB
The curate and schoolmaster of Seathwaite in the Duddon Valley; Wordsworth praised him as “A Pastor such as Chaucer's verse portrays.”
REFERENCES TO Robert Walker [Wonderful Walker]: Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 7