| 词条 | Walter K. Firminger |
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| name = Walter K. Firminger | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Walter Kelly Firminger | birth_date = 28 September 1870 | birth_place = Edmonton, Middlesex | death_date = 27 February 1940 | death_place = Hampton Court | nationality = British | other_names = | occupation = Churchman | years_active = | known_for = Historian of India | notable_works = }} Walter Kelly Firminger (28 September 1870 - 1940) was archdeacon of Calcutta and a historian of India who was the first editor of Bengal, Past & Present, the journal of Calcutta Historical Society. He was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Early lifeWalter Firminger was born on 28 September 1870 in Lower Edmonton,[1] Middlesex, the son of Captain,[1] the Reverend, Thomas Augustus Charles Firminger (died 1884)[2], East India Company chaplain and Georgiana Firminger.[3], née Buckner. He had two brothers, both clergymen and four sisters. He was educated at Lancing College and Bury St. Edmunds Grammar School before going up to Merton College, University of Oxford.[4] He married Eveleen Sarah Miles in 1898. They did not have children. At the time of the 1891 British census, while Firminger was at Merton, the family were living at Went House, Uley Green, Uley, in Gloucestershire, England.[3] CareerFirminger was ordained deacon at Hereford in 1893. He served as a UMCA missionary in Zanzibar from 1893 to 1897 and was subdean in 1896. He was a curate in Margate from 1897 to 1898. He had clerical appointments in India from 1899 to 1923 being Archdeacon of Calcutta from 1914 to 1923. He was editor of the Indian Churchman from 1900 to 1905. He was Vicar of Padbury, Bucks from 1923 to 1926. He was Chaplain to the King at Hampton Court Palace from 1926 until he died in 1940. B.Litt. and D.D. He was the first editor of Bengal, Past & Present, the journal of Calcutta Historical Society,[5] and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.[4] Selected publicationsAuthored works
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References1. ^British India Office Pension Registers - Orphans Transcription. Retrieved 10 May 2016. {{subscription required}} 2. ^British India Office Pension Registers - Orphans Transcription. Retrieved 10 May 2016. {{subscription required}} 3. ^1 2 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription. Retrieved 10 May 2016. {{subscription required}} 4. ^1 Hayavadana Rao, C. (Ed.) [https://archive.org/stream/indianbiographic00raoc#page/146/mode/2up The Indian biographical dictionary 1915.] Madras: Pillar & Co. pp. 146-7. 5. ^Bengal Past & Present. South Asia Archive. Retrieved 10 May 2016. External links{{Wikisource inline|The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Firminger, Ven’ble the Archdeacon, Walter K.|Walter K. Firminger}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Firminger, Walter}} 8 : Historians of India|1870 births|1940 deaths|Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society|Archdeacons of Calcutta|Alumni of Merton College, Oxford|People educated at Lancing College|People from Edmonton, London |
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