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• Occupation: 1901, 5 Victoria Road, Kensington, London, Middlesex, England; Architect

Walter married Mary Jane MOON on 9 Jul 1890 in St. George's Church, Hanover Square, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England. Mary died on 10 Jan 1944. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Prof. Walter Waddington Shirley

Prof. Rev. Walter Waddington Shirley (1828–1866) was an English churchman and ecclesiastical historian.

Life
The only son of Walter Augustus Shirley, bishop of Sodor and Man, he was born at Shirley, Derbyshire, on 24 July 1828. In 1837 he became pupil no. 2, second only to the headmaster's son, at Lieutenant C.R. Malden's preparatory school (now known as Windlesham House School) founded in that year at Newport, Isle of Wight. He left in 1839 for Rugby School under Thomas Arnold. His closest friend at Rugby and throughout his life was his cousin, William Henry Waddington, later in French politics.

In June 1846 Shirley matriculated at University College, Oxford, but in the following year he migrated to Wadham College, where he had gained a scholarship and became president of the Oxford Union. He obtained a first class in the honour school of mathematics in 1851, and in 1852 was elected a Fellow of his college. He had to vacate his fellowship three years later, on his mother's death, when he inherited a small landed property. From 1855 to 1863 he was tutor and mathematical lecturer of Wadham. It was during this period that he began historical study.

His theological views underwent considerable change; the position which Shirley occupied at the time of his death was still a provisional one. Having been in his early days a disciple of Arnold, he ultimately came to regard ‘undogmatic Christianity’ as a contradiction in terms. In May 1863, he preached in the university church a sermon on the unreasonableness of Arnold's teaching. Later that year he was made regius professor of ecclesiastical history and canon of Christ Church, Oxford. He was one of the pioneers of the university extension movement, and played a part in the founding of Keble College. His career was cut short at the age of thirty-eight. He died on 20 November 1866.

Works
In 1858 his edition of Fasciculi Zizaniorum Magistri Johannis Wyclif was published in the Rolls Series. He began a life of John Wiclif, which he did not live to complete, though in 1865 he published ‘Catalogue of the Original Works of John Wiclif,’ Oxford. In 1862 he edited for the Rolls Series ‘Royal and other Historical Letters illustrative of the Reign of Henry III.’

He also published a lecture on ‘Scholasticism,’ delivered before the university of Oxford, 1866. After his death a small volume by him, entitled ‘Some Account of the Church in the Apostolic Age,’ was published by the Clarendon Press

Walter married Phillipa Frances Emelia KNIGHT on 4 Jull 1855 in St. Mary's Church, Abberley, Worcester, Worcestershire, England. Phillipa (daughter of Samuel KNIGHT, esq. of Impington and Amelia MOULLET) was born on 14 Oct 1829 in Handsworth, Staffordshire, England; was christened on 11 Apr 1830 in Milton, Cambridgeshire, England; died on 2 Feb 1902; was buried in St. Sepulchre's Churchyard, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Walter Augustus Shirley

Walter Augustus Shirley (30 May 1797 – 21 April 1847) was an English bishop who was the Bishop of Sodor and Man.

Life
He was born on 30 May 1797 in Westport, Ireland, where his father held a curacy, the only son of Walter Shirley, by his wife Alicia, daughter of Sir Edward Newenham. His grandfather was Walter Shirley. At the age of nine, Shirley was placed under the care of the Rev. Legh Richmond but was soon moved to a school at Linton in Essex. He became a scholar of Winchester College in 1809, and six years later was elected to a scholarship at New College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow in 1818.

After his ordination on 7 August 1820, he took charge of the parish of Woodford, Northamptonshire, one of the livings held by his father. In 1821 he became curate of Parwich in Derbyshire. In 1822 he was appointed assistant lecturer of Ashbourne and curate of Atlow and was awarded the prize for the English essay at Oxford, the subject being the Study of Moral Evidence.

He acted as chaplain at Rome in the winter of 1826–7, and during his residence there he became intimately acquainted with Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen and Thomas Erskine, as well as with Charles Lock Eastlake and David Wilkie. In the autumn of 1827 he was married at Paris to Maria, daughter of William Waddington, and at the same time, his father resigned the living of St Michael's Church, Shirley in his favour. He took possession of his new home in January 1828. After nine years' residence at Shirley, he accepted the living of Whiston, near Rotherham, which he held jointly with Shirley. He gave up the former cure two years later when he was appointed to the incumbency of Brailsford, a parish adjoining that of Shirley. In 1829 he alienated some of his friends by his outspoken advocacy of Catholic emancipation; in later years he estranged others by refusing to support measures against the Tractarians. His own upbringing and views were evangelical.

He was made Archdeacon of Derby by the bishop of Lichfield on 21 December 1840. In November 1846 he was appointed Bishop of Sodor and Man by Lord John Russell; but because of a serious illness, he was not consecrated until 10 January 1847. He had been elected Bampton lecturer for that year but lived only long enough to deliver two of the lectures of his course. He died at Bishop's Court, Isle of Man, on 21 April 1847. His only son was Walter Waddington Shirley.

Among his pupils were Stafford Henry Northcote and his nephew, William Henry Waddington, the French minister.

Works
In addition to his Oxford prize essay, Shirley published A Charge to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Derby, 1846. The two Bampton lectures that he had delivered, together with two others which he had completed before death overtook him, were published in 1847 under the title of The Supremacy of the Holy Scriptures.

Walter married Maria WADDINGTON on 4 Sep 1827 in British Embassy Chapel, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Maria (daughter of William WADDINGTON and Grace Valentine SYKES) was christened on 1 Jun 1798 in St. Andrew by the Wardrobe Church, Blackfriars, London, Middlesex, England; died in Jun 1854 in Wyaston, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England; was buried on 17 Jun 1854 in St. Michael's Churchyard, Shirley, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1841, Shirley, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England

Samuel married Amelia MOULLET on 8 May 1828 in St. Mary's Church, Handsworth, Staffordshire, England. Amelia (daughter of Jean Louis MOULLIET, esq. and Amelia KEIR) was christened on 25 Oct 1802 in All Saints Church, West Bromwich, Sandwell, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Alicia NEWENHAM. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Grace Valentine SYKES on 23 Aug 1788 in St. Andrew by the Wardrobe Church, Blackfriars, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Frances Cave BROWNE. Frances died on 10 Dec 1844; was buried in All Saints Churchyard, Milton, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jean married Amelia KEIR on 19 May 1801 in All Saints Church, West Bromwich, Sandwell, Staffordshire, England. Amelia (daughter of James KIER, F.R.S. and Susanna HARVEY) was born on 17 Jul 1780 in West Bromwich, Sandwell, Staffordshire, England; was christened on 2 Oct 1780 in St. Martin's in the Bull Ring Church, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England; died on 8 Feb 1857; was buried in St. Mary's Churchyard, Abberley, Worcester, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Henrietta Maria PHILLIPS on 27 Aug 1766. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Grace Anna BURTON on 4 Feb 1754. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Jeanne Francoise SANTOUX on 1 Apr 1770 in Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Susanna HARVEY on 10 Oct 1771 in St. Philip's Cathedral, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. Susanna (daughter of Samuel HARVEY, II and Ann DAVIS) was born in 1745; died on 20 Nov 1802 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; was buried in All Saints Churchyard, West Bromwich, Sandwell, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]