Vera Evaline Walker

WALKER, Vera Evaline. b. Mirfield, Yorkshire, 24 November 1887; d. 28 March 1979. She was educated at a private school and at West Hill Teachers’ Training College, Selly Oak, Birmingham. From 1910 to 1916 she lived in London, working at Whitefield’s Central Mission, Tottenham Court Road. After a breakdown in health, she recovered at the Chaldecote Community, Charlton, south-west London, and returned to educational work. She became a member of King’s Weigh House Chapel, London (formerly the Chapel of Thomas Binney*), but later joined the Church of England. She was living at Alton, Hampshire in 1953 (Companion to CP, 1953, p. 531, from which the above information is taken). Walker was an...