Ronald Shapley

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Ronald Norman Shapley MC was a Colonial Anglican Bishop in the Windward Islands from 1949 [1] until 1962.

He was born on 16 July 1890 and educated at King's College London. [2] After World War I with the London Regiment [3] he was ordained in 1920. [4] After a curacy at St Clement's Notting Hill [5] he was Chaplain of the Gordon Boys' Home. In 1927 he entered the Chaplains' Branch of the RAF rising in time to be Assistant Chaplain-in-Chief before his appointment to the episcopate. He was ordained and consecrated a bishop on St Luke's day (18 October) at Southwark Cathedral [6] by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, [7] and died on 27 December 1964. [8]

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References

  1. Consecration of Three Bishops Service in Southwark Cathedral The Times Wednesday, 19 October 1949; pg. 7; Issue 51516; col C
  2. "Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN   978-0-19-954087-7
  3. London Gazette
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
  5. Church web-site
  6. "London consecrations" . Church Times (#4522). 7 October 1949. p. 657. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 12 April 2017 via UK Press Online archives.
  7. "(picture caption)" . Church Times (#4524). 21 October 1949. p. 693. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 12 April 2017 via UK Press Online archives.
  8. The Times Saturday, 21 August 1965; pg. 8; Issue 56406; col C Deaths