Herbert Pakenham-Walsh


Herbert Pakenham-Walsh was an Anglican bishop, educator, scholar and lyricist.
Pakenham-Walsh was the third son of William Pakenham-Walsh, Anglican Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin in Ireland from 1878 until 1897. He received a doctorate in divinity from Trinity College, Dublin. In 1916, he married Clara Hayes. He was a missionary at Bangalore, India from 1907 to 1908.
He was warden of Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore, Karnataka, India from 1907 until 1913. In 1915, he became the first Bishop of Assam when the diocese of Assam was created out of part of the territory of the diocese of Calcutta.

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