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Ian Wotton Allnutt Shevill AO[1] (11 May 1917 – 3 November 1988) was an Australian Anglican bishop.[2]
Ian Shevill | |
|---|---|
| Church | Anglican Church of Australia |
| Diocese | North Queensland |
| Installed | 23 April 1953 |
| Term ended | 1970 |
| Predecessor | Wilfrid Belcher |
| Successor | John Lewis |
| Other post(s) | Bishop of Newcastle (1973–1977) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1941 |
| Consecration | 19 April 1953 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ian Wotton Allnutt Shevill 11 May 1917 |
| Died | 3 November 1988 (aged 71) Auchenflower, Queensland |
| Spouse | June Stephenson
(m. 1959; died 1970)Margaret Ann Brabazon
(m. 1974) |
Ian Shevill was educated at Scots College, Sydney, and Sydney University,[3] then at Moore Theological College and the Australian College of Theology.[4]
Shevill was ordained in 1941[5] and his first position was as a curate of St Paul's, Burwood.[6] From 1948 to 1953 he worked for the Society for the Propagation of Gospel (USPG).
In 1953, he was ordained to the episcopate as Bishop of North Queensland, a post he held for 17 years. He was enthroned on 23 April 1953 at St James' Cathedral, Townsville.[7] 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.[8]
In 1970, Shevill's wife died and he became secretary of USPG in London. In 1973 he returned to Australia and was enthroned as Bishop of Newcastle[9] on 6 August 1973.[10]
Shevill retired in 1977 following a stroke[8] and died on 3 November 1988. He opened Bible House, Townsville, on 7 November 1964 with Canon Herbert Maxwell Arrowsmith and Preston Walker of the British and Foreign Bible Society.[11]
Shevill was an author, both during his work and after his retirement. Amongst others he wrote New Dawn in Papua (1946); Pacific Conquest (1948); God’s World at Prayer (1951); Orthodox and other Eastern Churches in Australia (1964); Going it with God (1969); One Man’s Meditations (1982); O, My God (1982); Between Two Sees (1988) and an autobiography, Half Time (1966), while bishop in Townsville.
Shevill married June Stephenson, an English missionary he had met in New Guinea, in 1959;[4] she died in 1970. He married again in 1974 to Margaret Ann Brabazon at Bishopscourt Chapel in Darling Point, Sydney.[4]
The then Bishop of Newcastle, Greg Thompson, reported in 2015 that he had been sexually abused by Shevill as a young man when he was 19 and interested in the priesthood.[12]
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