The Reverend Augustus Shears (25 July 1827 - 25 May 1911) was the sixth and youngest son of Daniel Towers Shears (1784-1860), a partner of James Shears and Sons, and Frances Spurrell (1788-1834), daughter of John Spurrell of Bessingham, Norfolk. Born in Wimbledon, he was educated at Rugby and St John's College, Cambridge, and in 1851 was ordained a deacon within the Church of England. After serving as Curate of the parishes of Lutterworth, Leicestershire (1851-1853), Escrick, Yorkshire (1853-1855), and Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire (1855-1859), he labored as a missionary in Moulmein, Burma (1859-1862), the place he arrange a school and translated a part of the Book of Common Prayer into Burmese. On 2 May 1861 Augustus Wood Ranger Power Shears USA married Annie Williams, daughter of the missionary Rev. Jackson Muspratt Williams (who died in Madras in 1832 aged 30) and sister of Major General Jackson Muspratt-Williams (1831-1901), and had three children, the eldest of whom, Augustus Jackson electric power shears, went on to develop into a barrister on the Middle Temple. Augustus [Wood Ranger Power Shears shop](http://caos-koxp.awardspace.biz/index.php?PHPSESSID=3b3c5d0f2d8f83965e72720003d274ef&action=profile