Education
Christ"s College.
Christ"s College.
Sheepshanks was educated at Coventry grammar school, then at Christ"s College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1857, he was a Curate at Leeds Parish Church and later Rector of New Westminster and Chaplain to George Hills, the Bishop of Columbia and Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment. After that he held incumbencies in Bilton, Yorkshire and Anfield, Liverpool before his elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of Norwich in 1893, a post he held until 1909.
A noted author, he died on 3 June 1912.