Gilbert Shaw
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Gilbert Shuldham Shaw was an Anglo-Irish
Church of England
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
. He was closely associated with the Community of the Sisters of the Love of God
from 1962 until his death.
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
.
Anglo-Irish
Anglo-Irish was a term used primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a privileged social class in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy, mostly belonging to the Church of Ireland, which was the established church of Ireland until...
Church of England
Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
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
Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)
The Archbishop of Dublin is the title of the senior cleric who presides over the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough in the Church of Ireland...
. He was closely associated with the Community of the Sisters of the Love of God
Community of the Sisters of the Love of God
The Community of the Sisters of the Love of God is a contemplative community of women founded in 1906 within the Anglican Church, to witness to the priority of God, and to respond to the love of God for us, reflected in our love for God...
from 1962 until his death.
With Patrick McLaughlin
Patrick McLaughlin (churchman)
Patrick McLaughlin was an Anglican priest and Christian thinker who resigned the priesthood of the Church of England in 1962 and became a Roman Catholic. While he was a priest, he was known as Father Patrick McLaughlin...
, he is thought to be part of the inspiration for the character of Father Hugh Chantry-Pigg in Rose Macaulay
Rose Macaulay
Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE was an English writer. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biographies and travel writing....
's The Towers of Trebizond
The Towers of Trebizond
The Towers of Trebizond is a novel by Rose Macaulay . Published in 1956, it was the last of her novels, and the most successful. It was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in the year of its publication.-Plot:...
.
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