Shipley Brettel-Vaughan was born on Tuesday 2 March 1915.

Shipley married Ethel Angela Lavender on Sunday 21 November 1937.

He had the following children from his marriage to Ethel Angela Lavender:

- Angela Zoe Brettel-Vaughan	born in 1938 (date suppressed) in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
- Diane Brettel-Vaughan	born in 1943 (date suppressed) in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.

Details of Shipley's occupation are not known.

Shipley died when he was about 75 years old, in 1990.