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.
Walter Firminger was born on 28 September 1870 in Lower Edmonton,[1] Middlesex, the son of Captain,[2] the Reverend, Thomas Augustus Charles Firminger (died 1884),[3] East India Company chaplain and Georgiana Firminger.,[1] née Buckner.
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.
He had clerical appointments in India from 1899 to 1923 being Archdeacon of Calcutta from 1914 to 1923.
He was Chaplain to the King at Hampton Court Palace from 1926 until he died in 1940.