Death: Dec. 5, 1943 Bristol
Bristol Unitary Authority Bristol, England.
Parents:
Herbert Samuel Shove (1854-1889)and
Bertha Millen (1865-1940) both Ospringe, Kent, England
2 Brothers:
Gerald Frank Shove (Nov 1887 – Aug 1947) was a noted Cambridge economist, author and conscientious objector.
Ralph Samuel Shove (May 1889 – Feb 1966) was a County Court judge and a rower who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics to win a silver medal with his team.
Spouses:
Guinevere Mary Wren (1891-1920) 4 daughters
Myrtle Mary Reilly (1887-1971) 3 sons
Herbert was an associate of the Ditchling community (Eric Gill, Hilary Pepler, David Jones and others who formed the Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic) and a follower of Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton and other distributists.
An influence on the Catholic Land Movement, he advocated a middle way between socialism and liberalism in a 'return to the land'. This conservative agrarianism eventually led him towards a flirtation with the reactionary right in the mid-1930s. His life and writings, however, provide an opportunity for reflection on the 'inconvenient history' of interwar ruralist/ecological movements in the 1930s within their entangled contexts of cultural despair and extremes of Englishness.
Books: The Fairy Ring of Commerce, Flee to the Fields: The Faith and Works of the Catholic Land Movement, The Catholic Land Movement: It's Motives and It's Aims and Methods, Distributist Perspectives: Volume I,
Distributist Perspectives: Volume II: Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity
Decorated for action in the Royal Navy submarine service in the Great War, he was re-mobilised in World War II and died of privations suffered in West Africa.
1917 awarded the D.S.O. for successfully getting his submarine through the Dardanelles during WW1.
1940 awarded the O.B.E. for his work routing shipping convoys during WW2.
lived as a child with his farming family on Queen Court Farm, in Ospringe.
15.01.1902
entered RN
(10.1913)
HMS C 2 (submarine) [tender to HMS Thames (depot ship)]
1915
-1916
Commanding Officer, HMS C 2 (submarine)
1916?
-1918?
Commanding Officer, HMS E 29 (submarine)
1918?
-1919?
Commanding Officer, HMS K 3 (submarine)
Distributist, journalist, and Catholic Land Association Secretary, living at Hallett's Farm, Ditchling.
25.08.1939
-(04.1940)
HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) (for organizing the defenses of the Port of London)
03.01.1941
-(02.)1941
HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon) (for miscellaneous services)
14.06.1941
-(12.1941)
HMS Helicon (RN base, Aultbea)
25.07.1942
-09.09.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
10.09.1942
-05.12.1943
HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
More:
http://www.roll-of-honour.org/Sussex/Ditchling.html
http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersS1b.html
Incidentally, Chief Willie, Herbert Shove is one of the war dead interred in Arnos Vale. The information I have is that he died on 5 December 1943 (not 1950 as the standard internet bio has it). He became ill while serving at HMS Eland (shore establishment, Freetown, Sierra Leone) and returned to the UK on the SS Edinburgh Castle, dying either on the ship or shortly after returning. As well as his DSO (1917) he was awarded the OBE in 1940. I have further information (non-service related) about him and his brothers, so if interested, please PM me for further discussion.
As well as the Arnos Vale headstone, he is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Ditchling Church, see:
http://www.roll-of-honour.org/Sussex/Ditchling.html
Family links:
Parents:
Herbert Samuel Shove (1854 - 1889)
Bertha Millen Shove (1865 - 1940)
Spouse:
Mary Myrtle Reilly Shove (1887 - 1971)*
Birth: Jul. 19, 1887, England
Death: Mar. 29, 1971,England.
Sources:
England & Scotland, Select Cemetery Registers, 1800-2014
England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Family links:
Spouse:
Herbert William Shove (1886 - 1943)
Burial:
Littlehampton Cemetery
Littlehampton
Arun District
West Sussex, England
Plot: C 126Siblings:
Herbert William Shove (1886 - 1943)
Gerald Frank Shove (1887 - 1947)*
Ralph Samuel Shove (1889 - 1966)*
Son of Herbert Samuel and Bertha Shove.
Married 1st (1910) Guinevere Wren (died 1920), daughter of J.A.E. Wren; four daughters.
Married 2nd (1920) Mary Myrtle Reilly, daughter of Col. J.A.H. Reilly; three sons.
Residence: Ditchling Common, Sussex.
lived as a child with his farming family on Queen Court Farm, in Ospringe.
15.01.1902 entered RN
(10.1913)
HMS C 2 (submarine) [tender to HMS Thames (depot ship)]
1915
1916
Commanding Officer, HMS C 2 (submarine)
1916?
-
1918?
Commanding Officer, HMS E 29 (submarine)
1918?
-
1919?
Commanding Officer, HMS K 3 (submarine)
Distributist, journalist, and Catholic Land Association Secretary, living at Hallett's Farm, Ditchling.
25.08.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) (for organizing the defenses of the Port of London)
03.01.1941
-
(02.)1941
HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon) (for miscellaneous services)
14.06.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Helicon (RN base, Aultbea)
25.07.1942
-
09.09.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
10.09.1942
-
05.12.1943
HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
more on Herbert William Shove
Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Saturday 19 December 1908
naval court-martial at Portsmouth, yesterday, acquitted Lieutenant Herbert William Shove, of the submarine depot ship " Mercury,' 0 f a charge drunkenness ashore, in respect which the Portsmouth magistrates had fined him. Police- Surgeon Maybury stated that h e would have trusted himself with the accused in the submarine. Leave expunge certain entries at the Stationers' Hall in reference to the copyright share certificate books, issued by an Oldham firm, was granted by a Divisional Court, yesterday, it being held that they were copied by the respondent from a proof handed him for the purpose of printing from it for the Lees Brook Spinning Company. When a foreman plate-layer was walking down the Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Junction Railway line towards Ashton, yesterday morning, he found a man unconscious, his head being a foot away from the metals. He had apparently been knocked down by a passing train, and was removed to the local infirmary, where he wa3 later identified as John Buckley, of Viscountstreet, Rochdale.
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