Ronald Shapley

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]

References

1. Consecration Of Three Bishops Service In Southwark Cathedral The Times Wednesday, 19 Oct 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 Aug 1965; pg. 8; Issue 56406; col C Deaths