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{{Infobox person
| name = Walter K. Firminger
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| 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
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'''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 life==
Walter Firminger was born on 28 September 1870 in Lower Edmonton,<ref name=1891census/> Middlesex, the son of Captain,<ref>[http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=bl%2fbind%2fl-ag-23-7-o%2f10906 British India Office Pension Registers - Orphans Transcription.] Retrieved 10 May 2016. {{subscription required}}</ref> the Reverend, Thomas Augustus Charles Firminger (died 1884),<ref>[http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=bl%2fbind%2fl-ag-23-7-o%2f5022 British India Office Pension Registers - Orphans Transcription.] Retrieved 10 May 2016. {{subscription required}}</ref> East India Company chaplain and Georgiana Firminger.,<ref name=1891census>[http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=gbc%2f1891%2f0013848948 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription.] Retrieved 10 May 2016. {{subscription required}}</ref> 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, Oxford|Merton College]], University of Oxford.<ref name=ind>[[C. Hayavadana Rao|Hayavadana Rao, C.]] (Ed.) [https://archive.org/stream/indianbiographic00raoc#page/146/mode/2up ''The Indian biographical dictionary 1915''.] Madras: Pillar & Co. pp. 146-7.</ref> 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.<ref name=1891census/>

==Career==
Firminger 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,<ref>[http://www.southasiaarchive.com/Content/sarf.120279 Bengal Past & Present.] South Asia Archive. Retrieved 10 May 2016.</ref> and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.<ref name=ind/>

==Selected publications==

===Authored works===
*''Over-population, facts and figures''. 1891.
*''The idea of an Oxford modern ethical society''. Oxford, 1891. (With W. Gibson)
*''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175011221952;view=1up;seq=3 A criticism of Böhm-Bawerk's doctrine of capital and interest]''. Oxford: Printed by J. Parker, (1892?)
*''Some thoughts on the recent criticism of the life and works of John Henry Cardinal Newman.'' Oxford: Printed for private circulation by James Parker, 1892.
*''What then did Dr. Newman do? Being an inquiry into his share in the church revival and a brief statement of the leading features of his religious teaching''. Oxford: Blackwell, 1892.
*''[https://archive.org/details/thackersguidetoc00firm Thacker's guide to Calcutta]''. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co. 1906.

===Edited and translated works===
*Molinari, G. (1894) ''Religion''. London: S. Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan. (Translator)
*''Missionary sermons by various writers''. London, 1898. (Editor)
*Fullarton, William, Peter Campbell, and William Anderson. (1909) ''[https://archive.org/details/diariesofthreesu00firm The Diaries of three surgeons of Patna, 1763]''. Calcutta: Calcutta Historical Society. (Editor)
*Grand, George Francois. (1910) ''The narrative of the life of a gentleman long resident in India''. Calcutta: Calcutta Historical Society, 1910. (Editor)
*''The Sylhet District records''. Shillong: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1913-1919. (Editor)
*''The fifth report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the affairs of the East India Company, dated 28th July, 1812''. Calcutta: R. Cambray, 1917-18. (Editor)

== References ==
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==External links==
{{Wikisource inline|The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Firminger, Ven’ble the Archdeacon, Walter K.|Walter K. Firminger}}
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