Prof. Rev. Walter Waddington SHIRLEY
1828 - 1866 (38 years)
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Name Walter Waddington SHIRLEY Title Prof. Rev. Relationship 
with Joseph GOLLING Birth 24 Jul 1828 Shirley, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England 
Christening 31 Jul 1828 St. Michael's Church, Shirley, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England 
St. Michael's Church
Shirley, Ashbourne, DerbyshireGender Male Death 20 Nov 1866 Burial Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Person ID I25521 Rolfe Family Tree Last Modified 17 Jul 2023
Father Walter Augustus SHIRLEY, Bishop of Sodor and Man, b. 30 May 1797, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland d. 21 Apr 1847, Isle of Man (Age 49 years) Mother Maria WADDINGTON, c. 1 Jun 1798, St. Andrew by the Wardrobe Church, Blackfriars, London, Middlesex, England d. Jun 1854, Wyaston, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England (Age ~ 56 years) Marriage 4 Sep 1827 British Embassy Chapel, Paris, Île-de-France, France Family ID F8838 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Phillipa Frances Emelia KNIGHT, b. 14 Oct 1829, Handsworth, Staffordshire, England d. 2 Feb 1902 (Age 72 years) Marriage 4 Jull 1855 St. Mary's Church, Abberley, Worcester, Worcestershire, England Children + 1. Alice SHIRLEY, b. 17 Jun 1856, Park Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d. 18 Jan 1911 (Age 54 years)2. Lady Mary Phillipa SHIRLEY, b. 28 Dec 1857, Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England d. 9 Sep 1917 (Age 59 years)3. Walter Sewallis SHIRLEY, b. 13 Oct 1859, Park Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d. 21 Jan 1861 (Age 1 year)4. Lady Laeta SHIRLEY, b. 29 Jun 1861, Park Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d. 27 Nov 1928, Acland Hospital, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (Age 67 years)+ 5. Walter Knight SHIRLEY, 11th Earl Ferrers, FRIBA, b. 5 Jun 1864, Christ Church, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d. 2 Feb 1937, Staunton Harold Hall, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England (Age 72 years)6. Hon. Ralph SHIRLEY, b. 30 Dec 1865, Christ Church, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d. 29 Dec 1946 (Age 80 years)Family ID F8839 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Jul 2023
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Notes - 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
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