Ian Wotton Allnutt Shevill AO was an Australian Anglican bishop.
10 Facts About Ian Shevill
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Ian Shevill was educated at Scots College, Sydney, and Sydney University, then at Moore Theological College and the Australian College of Theology.
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Ian Shevill was enthroned on 23 April 1953 at St James' Cathedral, Townsville.
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Ian Shevill was nicknamed "the boy bishop" as he was only 34 when he became Bishop of North Queensland, then the world's youngest Anglican bishop.
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In 1970, Ian Shevill's wife died and he became secretary of USPG in London.
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Ian Shevill retired in 1977 following a stroke and died on 3 November 1988.
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Ian Shevill opened Bible House, Townsville, on 7 November 1964 with Canon Herbert Maxwell Arrowsmith and Preston Walker of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
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Ian Shevill was an author, both during his work and after his retirement.
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Ian Shevill married June Stephenson, an English missionary he had met in New Guinea, in 1959; she died in 1970.
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Ian Shevill married again in 1974 to Margaret Ann Brabazon at Bishopscourt Chapel in Darling Point, Sydney.