Researching Ronald Shapley
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 236 people with the Shapley surname? In that year Shapley was ranked number 3343 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Ronald means "powerful, mighty" and is of English origin.
Records of Ronald Shapley on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Ronald Shapley and the Shapley Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 189 people with the Shapley surname in the UK? Shapley is now ranked number 3865 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called Ronald Shapley
Ronald Shapley
Ronald Norman Shapley was a Colonial Anglican Bishop in the Windward Islands from 1949 until 1962.
He was born on 16 July 1890 and educated at King's College London. After World War I with the London Regiment he was ordained in 1920. After a curacy at St Clement's Notting Hill 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 by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, and died on 27 December 1964.
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