Gilbert Shuldham Shaw (10 July 1886 in
Dublin
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– 18 August 1967 in Convent of the Incarnation, Fairacres,
Oxford
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) was an
Anglo-Irish
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Church of England
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priest, from 1940 vicar of
St Anne's Soho. His maternal grandfather was Sir
Philip Crampton Smyly, honorary physician to Queen Victoria, and he was baptised by his mother's uncle,
William Conyngham Plunket,
archbishop of Dublin
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. He was closely associated with the
Community of the Sisters of the Love of God from 1962 until his death. He was the author of various works on spirituality.
[Shaw, G. ''Rhythmic prayers''; 2nd ed. Oxford: S.L.G. Press, 1970 ISBN 072830001x ]
With
Patrick McLaughlin, he is thought to be part of the inspiration for the character of Father Hugh Chantry-Pigg in
Rose Macaulay
Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, (1 August 1881 – 30 October 1958) was an English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel ''The Towers of Trebizond'', about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel.
The story is seen as a spiri ...
'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
*Obituary in ''Church Times''; 25 Aug. 1967, p. 13
External links
DNB article
1886 births
1967 deaths
20th-century Church of England clergy
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