William Thomas Shapley
Rev. William Thomas Shapley was an Australian Bible Christian minister.
History
Shapley was born in Bedminster, Bristol and entered the Methodist ministry in 1889. He served in a number of circuits until his transfer to the South Australian Methodist Conference in 1901.During the First World War, Shapley was pastor of the Jamestown Methodist Church in South Australia. The region was dominated by German Lutherans, whom Shapley considered amiable. He preached that:
Shapley was chairman of the Christian Union. He was president of the South Australian Methodist Conference from 1923 to 1924.
Shapley died on 10 May 1956 in Kingswood, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. A thanksgiving tribute service was held at Pirie Street Methodist Church in Adalaide on 14 May 1956, delivered by the Hon. Sir Shirley Jeffries.