Walter Averill

Walter Wootton Averill was an eminent Anglican priest in the mid-twentieth century New Zealand.

The son of a former Archbishop of New Zealand, he was educated at the University of New Zealand and ordained in 1924. After a curacy in Cambridge he held incumbencies at Hauraki, Ponsonby and Auckland before his appointment as Archdeacon of Timaru, a post he held from 1945 until 1953.