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. | |