Leo Sherley-Price
Lionel Digby (Leo) Sherley-Price (1911–1998) was a Church of England clergyman and Oblate of Saint Benedict who translated medieval Christian literature for the Penguin Classics series.
Life[edit]
Sherley-Price was a student at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1932, and went on to study at Chichester Theological College in 1933.[1] In 1935 he was ordained as an Anglican priest.[2] In 1936 he graduated Master of Arts and was commissioned as a chaplain in the Royal Navy.[3] From 1937 to 1939 he went to China as chaplain aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle,[4] an experience that influenced his 1951 book Confucius and Christ. In November 1942 he was transferred to HMS Unicorn.[5]
From 1963 to 1969 he was rector of Thurlestone and from 1965 to 1969 rural dean of Woodleigh, Devon.[1] In 1969 he became vicar of Dawlish in the same county.[1] From 1974 to 1978 he was incumbent at Manaton and North Bovey. He relinquished his commission as a Royal Navy reserve chaplain in 1977.[6] He retired from full-time ministry in 1978.[2] In 1985 he celebrated 50 years as an Anglican priest.[4] His wife, Nora, passed away on 7 December 1995.[7] He died at Bovey Tracey hospital on 1 November 1998.[8]
Writings[edit]
As author[edit]
- Saints of England (Church Literature Association, 1936)
- Confucius and Christ: A Christian Estimate of Confucius (Dacre Press, 1951)[9]
As translator[edit]
- Little Flowers of Saint Francis (Penguin Books, 1951)
- Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (Penguin Books, 1952)
- Bede, A History of the English Church and People (Penguin Books, 1955)[10]
- Walter Hilton, The Ladder of Perfection (Penguin Books, 1957)
- Lent with Saint Francis: Readings from Early Franciscan Literature (Mowbray, 1958)
- Francis of Assisi, S. Francis of Assisi: His Life and Writings as Recorded by His Contemporaries (Mowbray, 1959)
- Julian of Norwich, Lent with Mother Julian: Reading from her "Revelations of divine love" (Mowbray, 1962)
- Thomas of Eccleston, The Coming of the Franciscans (Mowbray, 1964)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Crockford's Clerical Directory (1971), p. 867.
- ^ a b Crockford's Clerical Directory (1987), p. 503.
- ^ The Navy List (October 1937), p. 136.
- ^ a b "Fifty Years of Service", Herald Express, 21 December 1985, p. 15.
- ^ The Navy List (October 1943), vol. 2, p. 2605.
- ^ The London Gazette, 1 March 1977, p. 2829.
- ^ The Daily Telegraph, 9 December 1995, p. 20.
- ^ The Daily Telegraph, 5 November 1998, p. 30.
- ^ Reviewed by Joachim Wach in Church History, 21:2 (1952), p. 179.
- ^ Reviewed by B. D. Till in Theology, 58:426 (1955), pp. 469-471.