Walter K. Firminger

Walter K. Firminger
Born	Walter Kelly Firminger 28 September 1870 Edmonton
Died	1940
Nationality	British
Occupation	Churchman
Known for	Historian of India

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.

Walter Firminger was born on 28 September 1870 in Lower Edmonton, Middlesex, the son of Captain, the Reverend, Thomas Augustus Charles Firminger (died 1884) and Georgina Firminger. He had sisters Mary Louisa and Mabel Annie. He was educated at Lancing College and Bury St. Edmunds before going up to Merton College, University of Oxford. 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.

Firminger was ordained deacon at Hereford in 1893. He served as a priest in Mombasa in 1895 and was subdean in Zanzibar in 1896. He was editor of the Indian Churchman from 1900 to 1905. In 1915 he was a chaplain in Bengal. Later he was archdeacon of Calcutta.

He was the first editor of Bengal, Past & Present, the journal of Calcutta Historical Society, and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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