- GB-2014-WSA-15633
- Person
- 1725-1786
SHIRLEY, HON. WALTER, brother of Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (qv); b. 23 Sep 1725; adm. May 1736 (Preston's); left 1740; University Coll . Oxford, matr. 30 Jun 1742; BA 1746; adm. Inner Temple 2 Dec 1749; ordained; Rector of Loughrea, co. Galway; a friend of the Wesleys and of Whitfield; a constant speaker at English and Irish revivalist meetings, and frequently in conflict with his bishop and fellow clergy; Chaplain to his cousin, the Countess of Huntingdon; took an active part with Augustus Montagu Toplady (qv) on the Calvinist side in the famous Methodist controversy on justification by faith; assisted the Countess of Huntingdon in revising the hymns used in her chapels 1774; author, Gospel Repentance, 1760, and of several well-known hymns; m. 27 Aug 1766 Henrietta Maria, dau. of John Phillips, Swords, co. Dublin; d. 7 Apr 1786. DNB.