{{Short description|Australian Anglican bishop (1917–1988)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend | name = Ian Shevill | honorific-suffix = AO | title = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | church = Anglican Church of Australia | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = North Queensland | see = | enthroned ={{start date|1953|4|23|df=y}} | term_end ={{end date|1970|df=y}} | quashed = | predecessor = Wilfrid Belcher | successor = John Lewis |other_post = Bishop of Newcastle (1973–1977) <!-- doesn't work in Jan 2017 | diocese2=Diocese of Newcastle | predecessor2=James Housden | successor2=Alfred Holland | term_start2=1973 | term_end2=1977 --> | opposed = <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 1941 | ordained_by = | consecration = 19 April 1953 | consecrated_by = | rank = <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = Ian Wotton Allnutt Shevill | birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|05|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|11|3|1917|05|11|df=y}} | death_place = Auchenflower, Queensland | nationality = | religion = | residence = | parents = | spouse = {{plainlist| *{{marriage|June Stephenson |12 December 1959 | 1970 |end=died}} *{{marriage|Margaret Ann Brabazon|1 August 1974 }} }} | children = | occupation = | profession = <!-- or | previous_post = --> | education = | alma_mater = }}

'''Ian Wotton Allnutt Shevill''' AO<ref>{{cite web|title=Ian Wotton Allnutt Shevill AO|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/885803|publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet|access-date=24 February 2012}}</ref> (11 May 1917{{spaced ndash}}3 November 1988) was an Australian Anglican bishop.<ref>"New bishop for Australia", ''The Times'', 22 December 1972, p. 15.</ref>

==Early life and education== Ian Shevill was educated at Scots College, Sydney, and Sydney University,<ref>Who was Who 1987-1990: London, A & C Black, 1991, {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}</ref> then at Moore Theological College and the Australian College of Theology.<ref name="ADB">{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |last= Kidd |first=Alex |<!--authorlink= "author article (optional)" --> |year=2012 |id=shevill-ian-wotton-allnutt-15486 |title=Shevill, Ian Wotton Allnutt (1917–1988) |accessdate=2017-01-15}}</ref>

==Ordained ministry== Shevill was ordained in 1941<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}</ref> and his first position was as a curate of St Paul's, Burwood.<ref>[http://stpaulsburwood.anglican.asn.au/ Church website]{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |date=24 April 1953 |title=Bishop Shevill Enthroned |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62483047 |access-date=20 January 2017 |newspaper=Townsville Daily Bulletin |location=Queensland, Australia |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia |volume=LXXIII}}</ref> 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.<ref name="charming">{{cite web |url=https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/2519118/charming-bishop-shevills-abuse-link/ |title='Charming' Bishop Shevill's abuse link |first=Joanne |last=McCarthy |date=27 August 2014 |newspaper=The Newcastle Herald |access-date=15 January 2017}}</ref>

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<ref>[http://www.angdon.com/history/ Diocesan History]</ref> on 6 August 1973.<ref>{{cite news |date=17 August 1973 |title=Diocese of Newcastle.—In pursuance of the provisions |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article220217175 |access-date=20 January 2017 |newspaper=Government Gazette Of The State Of New South Wales |location=New South Wales, Australia |page=3550 |via=National Library of Australia |issue=105}}</ref>

Shevill retired in 1977 following a stroke<ref name="charming"/> 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.<ref>''Bible to thousands: fulfilling the vision with the Bible Society in Australia 1963 to 1979'', S. Preston Walker, 2005, {{ISBN|9780646521473}}</ref>

==Author== 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.

==Personal life== Shevill married June Stephenson, an English missionary he had met in New Guinea, in 1959;<ref name="ADB"/> she died in 1970. He married again in 1974 to Margaret Ann Brabazon at Bishopscourt Chapel in Darling Point, Sydney.<ref name="ADB"/>

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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/3448867/anglican-bishop-names-his-abuser/ |title= Anglican bishop Greg Thompson sexually abused by late Bishop Ian Shevill |first=Joanne |last=McCarthy |newspaper=The Newcastle Herald |date=26 October 2015 |access-date=15 January 2017}}</ref>

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