William Shaw

(Diocese of Aberdeen) Born in Aberdeen, 1st January 1858, the son of William Shaw and Jean Stopani; received subdiaconate from Bp. Serra of Daulia (Perth, Australia) in college church, 20th November 1881; ordained a priest, bishop’s private chapel, Palencia, 25th March 1882, and left for Scotland, 11th April 1882; died in Fochabers, 21st May 1937. (MT)

Date	Age	Description
1 Jan. 1858		Born Aberdeen
1871-1875	13	Blairs
15 Sep. 1875	17	Arrived in the College
20 Nov. 1881	23	Received subdiaconate from Dom Serra, O.S.B., tit. Bp. of Daulia (former administrator of Perth, Australia) in college church
25 Mar. 1882	24	Ordained a priest, bishop’s private chapel, Palencia
11 Apr. 1882	24	Left for Scotland
1882-1891	24	Professor, Blairs
1891-1897	33	Vice-rector, Blairs
1897-1898	39	St John's, Port Glasgow (Archdiocese of Glasgow)
1898-1908	40	Linwood (Archdiocese of Glasgow)
1908-1910	50	Aberdeen Cathedral
1910-1937	52	Fochabers
21 May 1937	79	Died Fochabers

William Shaw was the nephew of William Stopani (student No. 122).

Report of the ordination of William Shaw in the Scottish Catholic Directory of 1883.

The Rev. William Shaw was born in Aberdeen on 1st January, 1858; entered Blairs College on 20th July, 1871; and was sent to Valladolid in August, 1875. He received the Tonsure and Minor Orders on the 19th, and the Subdiaconate on the 20th, November, 1881, from Mgr. Serra, Bishop of Daulia, in the College Chapel; and was ordained Deacon on the 4th, and Priest on the 25th, March, 1882, by Mgr. Lozano y Terreira, Bishop of Palencia, in the Chapel of his Episcopal Palace. On his return to Scotland he was appointed Professor in Blairs College.