Leo sherley price biography of mahatma

Lionel Digby (Leo) Sherley-Price (1911–1998) was a Church of England clergyman and Oblate of Saint Benedict who translated medievalChristian literature for the Penguin Classics series.

Life

Sherley-Price was a student at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1932, and went on to study at Chichester Theological College in 1933.^[1] In 1935 he was ordained as an Anglican priest.^[2] In 1936 he graduated Master of Arts and was commissioned as a chaplain in the Royal Navy.^[3] From 1937 to 1939 he went to China as chaplain aboard the aircraft carrierHMS Eagle,^[4] an experience that influenced 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 and from 1965 to 1969 rural dean of Woodleigh, Devon.^[1] In 1969 he became vicar of Dawlish in the same county.^[1] From 1974 to 1978 h