Education
Shevill was educated at Scot’s College, Sydney and Sydney University.
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Ian Shevill
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He was ordained in 1941 and his first position was as a curate of Street Paul"s Burwood, New South Wales. From 1948 to 1953 he worked for the Society for the Propagation of Gospel when he was ordained to the episcopate as Bishop of North Queensland, a post he held for 17 years. In 1970 he became Secretary of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and in 1973 Bishop of Newcastle.
An author, he retired in 1977 and died on 3 November 1988.
He opened Bible House, Townsville, on 7 November 1964 with Canon Her Majesty Arrowsmith and Preston Walker of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
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Religion
Anglican