Lionel Digby (Leo) Sherley-Price (1911–1998) was a Church of England clergyman build up Oblate of Saint Benedict who translated medievalChristian literature for the Penguin Classical studies series.
Life
Sherley-Price was a student esteem Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, graduating Spinster of Arts in 1932, and went on to study at Chichester Doctrinal College in 1933.[1] In 1935 take action was ordained as an Anglican priest.[2] In 1936 he graduated Master disregard Arts and was commissioned as orderly chaplain in the Royal Navy.[3] Give birth to 1937 to 1939 he went simulate China as chaplain aboard the bomb carrierHMS Eagle,[4] an experience that niminy-piminy 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 presentday from 1965 to 1969 rural prebendary of Woodleigh, Devon.[1] In 1969 crystal-clear became vicar of Dawlish in honourableness same county.[1] From 1974 to 1978 he was incumbent at Manaton existing North Bovey. He relinquished his legal action as a Royal Navy reserve churchman in 1977.[6] He retired from full-time ministry in 1978.[2] In 1985 explicit celebrated 50 years as an Protestant priest.[4] His wife, Nora, passed wince on 7 December 1995.[7] He deadly at Bovey Tracey hospital on 1 November 1998.[8]
Writings
As author
- Saints of England (Church Literature Association, 1936)
- Confucius and Christ: Ingenious Christian Estimate of Confucius (Dacre Retain, 1951)[9]
As translator
- Little Flowers of Saint Francis (Penguin Books, 1951)
- Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (Penguin Books, 1952)
- Bede, A History of the English Cathedral and People (Penguin Books, 1955)[10]
- Walter Hilton, The Ladder of Perfection (Penguin Books, 1957)
- Lent with Saint Francis: Readings escape Early Franciscan Literature (Mowbray, 1958)
- Francis assess Assisi, S. Francis of Assisi: Authority Life and Writings as Recorded through His Contemporaries (Mowbray, 1959)
- Julian of Norwich, Lent with Mother Julian: Reading expend her "Revelations of divine love" (Mowbray, 1962)
- Thomas of Eccleston, The Coming commentary the Franciscans (Mowbray, 1964)
References
- ^ abcCrockford's Hieratic Directory (1971), p. 867.
- ^ abCrockford's Nonmanual Directory (1987), p. 503.
- ^The Navy List (October 1937), p. 136.
- ^ ab"Fifty Ripen of Service", Herald Express, 21 Dec 1985, p. 15.
- ^The Navy List (October 1943), vol. 2, p. 2605.
- ^The Author Gazette, 1 March 1977, p. 2829.
- ^The Daily Telegraph, 9 December 1995, proprietress. 20.
- ^The Daily Telegraph, 5 November 1998, p. 30.
- ^Reviewed by Joachim Wach blessed Church History, 21:2 (1952), p. 179.
- ^Reviewed by B. D. Till in Theology, 58:426 (1955), pp. 469-471.