WALKER, Cornelius, clergyman, born near Richmond, Virginia, 12 June, 1819. His education and training were obtained at the Episcopal high-school at Richmond. He was ordained deacon in St. Paul's church, Alexandria, 12 July, 1845, by Bishop Meade, and priest in Grace church, Lexington, 23 September, 1846, by the same prelate. He was minister in Amherst county, Virginia, in 1845-'7, assistant minister in St. Paul's church. Richmond, in 1847-'8, rector of Christ church, Winchester, in 1848-'60, of Christ church, Alexandria, in 1860-'1, and of Emmanuel church, Henrico, in 1862-'6. He was appointed professor of church history in the Theological seminary of Virginia in 1866, and served for ten years, when he was made professor of systematic divinity and homiletics. The degree of D. D. was given him by William and Mary college in 1859. Dr. Walker has been a frequent contributor to reviews and magazines, and has furnished articles on "Liturgies," "Evidences of Christianity," "Ecclesiastical History," and other similar subjects for religious cyclopaedias. He has published "Biography of Roy. William Duval, City Missionary" (Richmond, 1854);" Life and Correspondence of Reverend William Sparrow, D. D., Professor in the Theological Seminary, Virginia" (Philadelphia, 1876); "Biography of the Reverend Charles W. Andrews, D. D." (1877) ; and "Sorrowing not without Hope" (New York, 1887).