Jonathan Shipley, bishop of St Asaph

(1713-1788)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Shipley, Jonathan, 1714-1788 NRA: Shipley, Jonathan (1714-1788) Bishop of St Asaph DNB: Shipley, Jonathan (1713–1788), bishop of St Asaph LBT ID: JoShipl788 VIAF ID: 39754086 LOC ID: n85352383	B/BAP: 1713-10-02 DIED: 1788-12-06
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Educated at St John's College, Oxford and Christ Church, Oxford, he was tutor for Charles Mordaunt, third earl of Peterborough; a Whig clergyman, he was bishop of St Asaph (1770) and a member of Samuel Johnson's Literary Club.
REFERENCES TO Jonathan Shipley, bishop of St Asaph: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. IX. 1776-1777 Found 1: ¶ 9 Ch. XI. 1779-1786 Found 1: ¶ 13 Ch. XVII. 1787 Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. XXIII. 1794 Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch XIII. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 4 Ch XXI. Found 1: ¶ 16