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
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The community has always drawn upon Carmelite spirituality.
The community is at the Conven ...
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
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's ''
The Towers of Trebizond
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Plot ...
''.
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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