Gilbert Shuldham Shaw (10 July 1886 in
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 ...
– 18 August 1967 in Convent of the Incarnation, Fairacres,
Oxford
Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the Un ...
) was an
Anglo-Irish Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britai ...
priest, from 1940 vicar of
St Anne's Soho
Saint Anne's Church serves in the Church of England the Soho section of London. It was consecrated on 21 March 1686 by Bishop Henry Compton as the parish church of the new civil and ecclesiastical parish of St Anne, created from part of the pari ...
. His maternal grandfather was Sir
Philip Crampton Smyly
Sir Philip Crampton Smyly (28 March 1866–1953) was a British judge and colonial administrator.
Career
Smyly was the son of the surgeon Sir Philip Crampton Smyly, Surgeon-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria and to successive Lords-Lieutenant of Irela ...
, honorary physician to Queen Victoria, and he was baptised by his mother's uncle,
William Conyngham Plunket
William Conyngham Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket (26 August 1828 – 1 April 1897) was Dean of Christ Church Cathedral and Archbishop of Dublin in the Church of Ireland.
Life
Born in Dublin, he was the eldest son of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Pl ...
,
archbishop of Dublin. He was closely associated with the
Community of the Sisters of the Love of God from 1962 until his death.
[Hacking (1986)]
With
Patrick McLaughlin, he is thought to be part of the inspiration for the character of Father Hugh Chantry-Pigg in
Rose Macaulay's ''
The Towers of Trebizond''.
References
Further reading
*Hacking, Rod (1986) "Gilbert Shaw (1886-1967)", in: ''Fairacres Chronicle''; vol. 19, no. 2, summer 1986, pp. 6–10
*Shaw, Gilbert (1986) "Response to the Spirit: Fr Gilbert with the nuns at Fairacres, December 1962", in: ''Fairacres Chronicle''; vol. 19, no. 2, summer 1986, pp. 11–21
External links
DNB article
1886 births
1967 deaths
20th-century Church of England clergy
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