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 position of Provost of TCD, and expelled
8 Oct. 1804; est. chapel at Stafford St.; fnd. ‘The Church of God’,
with followers, Dublin 1804; lived by university course teaching, private
tutor;, 1804-19; moved to London, 1819; received £600 pension from TCD
in amends for treatment, 1833; returned to Dublin and died 23 Oct. His
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.
DNB.
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