Ronald Shapley Explained

Ronald Norman Shapley 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 by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, and died on 27 December 1964.[6]

References

  1. Consecration of Three Bishops Service in Southwark Cathedral The Times Wednesday, 19 October 1949; pg. 7; Issue 51516; col C
  2. [Who's Who (UK)|"Who was Who"]
  3. http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33335/pages/7824/page.pdf London Gazette
  4. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  5. http://www.clementjames.co.uk/ Church web-site
  6. [The Times]