4. | Prof. Rev. Walter Waddington SHIRLEY (3.Walter3, 2.Alicia2, 1.Edward1) was born on 24 Jul 1828 in Shirley, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England; was christened on 31 Jul 1828 in St. Michael's Church, Shirley, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England; died on 20 Nov 1866; was buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. 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
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]
Children:
- 6. Alice SHIRLEY
was born on 17 Jun 1856 in Park Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; was christened on 18 Jul 1856 in St. Mary Magdalene Church, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 18 Jan 1911; was buried in St. Michael's Churchyard, Shirley, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England.
- 7. Lady Mary Phillipa SHIRLEY
was born on 28 Dec 1857 in Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England; was christened on 2 Feb 1858 in St. Mary Magdalene Church, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 9 Sep 1917; was buried in St. Sepulchre's Churchyard, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.
- 8. Walter Sewallis SHIRLEY
was born on 13 Oct 1859 in Park Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; was christened on 30 Nov 1859 in St. Mary Magdalene Church, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 21 Jan 1861; was buried in St. Sepulchre's Churchyard, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.
- 9. Lady Laeta SHIRLEY
was born on 29 Jun 1861 in Park Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; was christened on 29 Jun 1861 in St. Mary Magdalene Church, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 27 Nov 1928 in Acland Hospital, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.
- 10. Walter Knight SHIRLEY, 11th Earl Ferrers, FRIBA
was born on 5 Jun 1864 in Christ Church, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; was christened on 7 Jul 1864 in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 2 Feb 1937 in Staunton Harold Hall, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England.
- 11. Hon. Ralph SHIRLEY
was born on 30 Dec 1865 in Christ Church, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; was christened on 8 Feb 1866 in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 29 Dec 1946.
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