Researching Rex Shelley
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2319 people with the Shelley surname? In that year Shelley was ranked number 1652 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Rex means "king" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Rex Shelley on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Rex Shelley and the Shelley Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 3942 people with the Shelley surname in the UK? Shelley is now ranked number 1459 for popularity in the UK. |
Shelley Genealogy Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 15191 people with the Shelley surname in the USA? Shelley is ranked number 152 for popularity in the USA. |
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Rex Shelley
Rex Anthony Shelley (27 October 1930 – 21 August 2009) was a Singaporean author. A graduate of the University of Malaya in Malaysia and Cambridge trained in engineering and economics, Shelley managed his own business and also worked as member of the Public Service Commission (PSC) for over 30 years. For his service, he was conferred the Bintang Bakti Masyarakat (Public Service Star) by the Government of Singapore in 1978, and an additional Bar the next year.
Shelley started writing fiction late in life, publishing his first novel, The Shrimp People, in 1991 at the age of sixty one. The first substantial work by a Singaporean writer about the Eurasian community in Singapore, it was highly commended by The Straits Times and won the 1992 National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) Award. The books People of the Pear Tree (1993), Island in the Centre (1995) and A River of Roses (1998), on the same theme, followed within a decade; respectively, they won NBDCS Highly Commended Awards in 1994 and 1996, and the Dymocks Singapore Literature Prize in 2000. In 2007 he was the Singaporean winner of the S.E.A. Write Award. Critics have responded positively to his writing, noting its "passionate, humane" style, and observing how his breadth of life experience gave rise to a talent for characterisation plus an ability to blend "a sharp sense of observed commentary with historical detail".
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