William Horatio Walsh

Less than two weeks later, on 21 June 1838, Walsh married Annie Ireland Treherne (1804 - 1890) at his family church of St George's Hanover Square, London,[1] before departing for Australia aboard "The Fairlie" on 31 July 1838.

[4] Over 25 years, from the laying of the foundation stone in 1840, Walsh completed Christ Church St Laurence and guided the formation of several "daughter" parishes in Redfern, Surry Hills and Glebe.

[5][6][7] Bishop Broughton once wrote of Walsh as "the last legacy ... of the good Archdeacon of St Albans",[8] the Ven John James Watson (1767-1839) one of the leaders of the High Church group known as the "Hackney Phalanx".

Walsh's sermon on the duty and privilege of Holy Communion which he delivered in 1842[10] was cited in Sydney for many years as proof of his Tractarian leanings.

[11] His liturgical "innovations" were no more than preaching in the surplice, conducting choral services with a robed choir, and taking up a collection at the offertory in conformity with the rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer.

[14] Walsh visited St Augustine's Missionary College, Canterbury in 1851, and spoke at the farewell of the first graduate of the institution who was intended for ministry in Sydney.

[21] The great and powerful Walsh associated with included the Chief Justice Sir Alfred Stephen (1802 - 1894),[22] the Colonial Treasurer, Robert Campbell (1804 -1859),[23] and the businessman Thomas Sutcliffe Mort (1816 - 1878).

[28] In 1872, his watercolour drawing "Asia in a Cyclone" was exhibited in the fine arts section of the New South Wales Agricultural Society's annual show.

[31] Their closeness sometimes caused problems when controversies arose, such as when, in 1848, two Sydney Anglican clergy resigned their licenses having announced their conversion to the Roman Catholic Church.

He arrived in Sydney in 1880 via Norfolk Island where, on 7 December 1880, his old curate John Selwyn, now Bishop of Melanesia, consecrated St Barnabas' Chapel.

The press reported that Walsh "undertook no regular duty" after his return to New South Wales, but "remained mostly at Bodalla, only occasionally visiting his friends in Sydney".

[41] A separate funeral service was held at Christ Church St Laurence, the preacher being his former curate, Bishop Selwyn of Melanesia.