Francis Joseph Walmsley CBE (9 November 1926 – 26 December 2017) was an English prelate of the Catholic Church.
[1] Born in Woolwich on 9 November 1926, he was ordained to the priesthood on 30 May 1953.
His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 22 February 1979, the principal consecrator was Bishop Gerard Tickle, retired Bishop of the Forces, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop Mario Conti of Aberdeen (later Archbishop of Glasgow) and Archbishop Michael Bowen of Southwark.
[1] During his term the military vicariate of the British Forces was raised to the status of a military ordinariate on 21 July 1986.
[1] He died on Boxing Day 2017 in Reading, and is buried in the grounds of St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough.