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SHIPLEY, WILLIAM DAVIES, son of Right Rev. Jonathan Shipley DD, Bishop of St. Asaph, and Anna Maria Mordaunt, Maid of Honour to Queen Caroline, dau. of Hon. George Mordaunt; b. 5 Oct 1745; at school under Markham (GM 1826, ii, 641); went to Winchester Coll.; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Dec 1763, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1763 – void 20 Apr 1771 (expiry year of grace as R. Ysgeifiog from 7 May 1770); deprived of Studentship for writing Comparative Observations 22 Jun 1767, but reinstated on appeal; BA 1769; MA 1771; ordained; Rector of Ysgeifiog, Flints., from 19 Mar 1770; Vicar of Wrexham, Denbighshire, from 6 Feb 1771; Rector of Llangwm, Denbighshire 11 Apr 1772-4; Incumbent, Corwen, Merioneth 1774-82; Incumbent, Llanarmon yn Ial, Denbighshire, from 1782; Chancellor, Diocese of St. Asaph, from 1773; Dean of St. Asaph from 27 May 1774; of pronounced liberal opinions; prosecuted for seditious libel for the publication of an edition of Sir William Jones’s Principles of Government, 1783, but was successfully defended by Erskine; the public interest aroused by this prosecution led eventually to the passing of Fox’s Libel Act, 1792; m. 28 Apr 1777 Penelope, elder dau. of Ellis Yonge, Bryn Yorkin, near Wrexham, Denbighshire; d. 7 May 1826. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.