He also found him anti-Catholic, as were colleagues including Joseph Batten and Charles Webb Le Bas.
[9] David Parry Okeden of More Crichel published his Letter to the Members in Parliament for Dorset (1830), advocating poor law reform.
[12][13] Okeden, a Radical Whig, chose six places to illustrate his views on the "good" and "bad" management of poor relief.
Walter he considered exemplary of "good" management: the involvement of a parish priest concerned directly with the material welfare of the poor.
[14] Walter then contributed further in the discussion of social conditions in Dorset, and the debate on the Speenhamland system, with his Letter to the Rev.
[15] At the end of decade Walter was drawn into controversy with George Loveless, who addressed his pamphlet The Church Shown Up: In a Letter (1838) to him.
[17] He contributed to the Record, controlled by Alexander Haldane]; and wrote in the Christian Guardian to criticise a move in 1850 by Oxford followers of Edward Pusey.
[1][20] In 1800 Walter was a prizewinner, with Thomas Love Peacock and Leigh Hunt, in an essay competition in the Juvenile Library.