DIED - On Thursday at his house at Parramatta, after an illness of two days, Mr. James Shelley, formerly on the Mission to Otaheite, and latterly Superintendant of the Seminary for the Reception & Instruction of the Infant Natives of these Settlements; in which capacity he was indeed most estimable to society. He leaves an amiable wife and large infant family to regret his loss; and in their afflictions all who ever had the happiness of his acquaintance, or the experience of his kind unaffected manners, most feelingly participate.
'Shelley, William James (1774–1815)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/shelley-william-james-2653/text31460, accessed 26 February 2021.
29 May 1774
Hanley, Staffordshire, England
6 July 1815
Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia