Ronald Shapley

The Rt Rev 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 elevation to the Episcopate. He died on 27 December 1964.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ Consecration Of Three Bishops Service In Southwark Cathedral The Times Wednesday, Oct 19, 1949; pg. 7; Issue 51516; col C
  2. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877
  3. ^ London Gazette
  4. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
  5. ^ Church web-site
  6. ^ The Times Saturday, Aug 21, 1965; pg. 8; Issue 56406; col C Deaths
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Horace Norman Vincent Tonks		 Bishop of the Windward Islands
1949 – 1962		 Succeeded by
Harold Grant Pigott
Church in the Province of the West Indies