He served as the fourth Dean of Liverpool from 1983 to 1999 during which time he extended the facilities of the cathedral and promoted the creation of a large public housing development next to it.
[1] Rhys Derrick Chamberlain Walters was born in Britain on 10 March 1932,[2] the son of a shop steward.
He was ordained in 1958[4] and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Michael's church, Manselton, Swansea.
[6] In 1962 he became parish priest in industrial areas - firstly at All Saints, Totley and secondly at St Mary's, Boulton by Derby.
Here, with the support of his wife, Joan (née Joan Trollope Fisher,[7]) and in co-operation with his bishop, he improved the liturgy and music, extended the cathedral's facilities (creating a refectory and conference venue) and developed adjacent land by helping to commission public housing as well as housing for students and cathedral staff and building the Queen's Walk and the Liverpool John Moores University media studies block.