Canon Walter William Covey-Crump (1865–1949) was an Anglican priest, serving as curate and vicar in the diocese of Ely, Cambridgeshire for over fifty years.

[6] It was after attending evening classes that Crump was able to win a scholarship to Ayerst Hall, Cambridge,[6] "a hostel ... designed to aid men of modest means in obtaining a university degree and theological training",[7] where he read mathematics,[6] and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1891, and his Master of Arts in 1895.

[nb 6][13][8] The 1891 census finds "Walter William Crump" visiting Covey at his rectory in Dry Drayton parish.

[nb 8][15] He formalised the name, "Covey", by deed poll on 5 March 1903, shortly before he married; by that time he was already using it as a double-barrelled surname.

[6] Opening a fête 44 years later, he recalled his time there: In those days the organist lived in Cambridge, and if he did not come we turned the handle of a barrel organ and ground the tune out ...

While there he was the subject of controversy when he became vice-chairman of the parish council, which was populated with Nonconformists, one of whom feared that he "would be casting a net to catch fish".

In 1932, the population of his parish was 930, and the net income from his benefice in that year was £370 (equivalent to £32,443 in 2023),[26] plus tenancy of the Friday Bridge vicarage.

[30] In July 1934 Covey-Crump was nominated to serve as rural dean of Wisbech for five years,[31] although he resigned the position in 1938.

[32] He left the incumbency of Friday Bridge for that of St James, Newton-in-the-Isle, in 1935, writing a modest farewell note to his parishioners: "The energetic and popular rector ... Mr Wells ... is a clergyman of broad views and varied experience who will, I am sure, do his utmost to carry on the organisations in the parish, and may succeed in other ways wherein I have failed.

[36] On 12 January 1927, he was appointed and invested a prelate of the Order of the Red Cross of Constantine at Mark Masons' Hall, London.

[41][42] In 1936 Covey-Crump read an "address dealing with certain historical aspects of Masonic emblems" to the 54th regular meeting of the Suffolk Installed Masters' Lodge of Freemasons at Saxmundham.

[43] Covey-Crump was elected general secretary of the Wisbech branch of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) in June 1930.