Thorndike Shaw Explained

Type:Archdeacon
Honorific-Prefix:The Ven
(Herbert) Thorndike Shaw
Anglican Archdeacon of Grenada
Church:Church of England
See:Windward Isles
Term:1937–1945
Previous Post:Vicar of Copmanthorpe

(Herbert) Thorndike Shaw was an Anglican priest in the mid twentieth century.[1]

He was educated at Keble College, Oxford; and ordained in 1927.[2] After a curacies in Byker, Whitley Bay and Newcastle he was Vicar of Copmanthorpe from 1932 until 1937. He was Archdeacon of Grenada from 1937 to 1945[3] when he returned to England to be Rector of Wokingham.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.guildofallsouls.org.uk/In%20Memoriam%20January.htm Guild of all souls
  2. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  3. Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jun 09, 1945; pg. 7; Issue 50164