Sir Arthur Shipley was the second son of Alexander Shipley, of the Hall, Datchet, who died in 1896. He was born at Walton-on-Thames on March 10, 1861, and died at the Master's Lodge of Christ's College, Cambridge, on September 22, 1927. His health had for some time been failing, but it was hoped that a visit to Trinidad, undertaken at the beginning of 1927, might re-establish it. This hope was not realised, and, after his return early in March, his condition continued to give his friends anxiety. This was accentuated during Easter week by an attack which for some forty-eight hours seemed likely to prove fatal. He made an unexpected and really wonderful recovery, and for a considerable part of May and June was able to lead an active life, attending to business and taking daily walks, both in the College grounds and in the town. The improvement did not continue, however, and although he was able to spend three weeks at Folkestone towards the end of July he was going downhill, with fluctuations, throughout the summer. The final illness began to show itself towards the end of August. Before his death he was contemplating a short account of the influence of Biological Science on the spread of Colonisation, to have been published in the ‘Cambridge History of the British Empire’, of which Dr. J. Holland Rose is one of the editors; but this essay does not appear to have been begun. Arthur Shipley was one of several children, of whom two sisters survive— Mrs. A. Hutchinson, wife of the present Professor of Mineralogy at Cambridge and Master of Pembroke College, and another who married Dr. H. M. Stewart, a well-known medical practitioner in Dulwich and Senior Surgeon of the South-Eastern Hospital for Children. His elder brother, Sir William Shipley (died 1922), was three times Mayor of Windsor, and his younger brother Reginald (died 1924) went to the Boer War as a captain of the City Imperial Volunteers, served as colonel in the Great War, and received the honour of C. M. G.
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