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Sir Berkeley Sheffield MP Sir Berkeley Digby George Sheffield, 6th Baronet , DL (19 January 1876 – 26 November 1946) was a British Member of Parliament for the Conservative Part...

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Sir Berkeley Sheffield MP

Sir Berkeley Digby George Sheffield, 6th Baronet, DL (19 January 1876 – 26 November 1946) was a British Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party.

Background

Berkeley with his sister Dorothy in a painting by Sarah Purser which was exhibited in 1885 at the Royal Academy of Arts[1]

He was born in London, the son of Sir Robert Sheffield, 5th Baronet, of Normanby Hall, whom he succeeded as Baronet in 1886. Sheffield was educated at Eton College and in France and Germany. He served with the Lincolnshire Regiment and in the Yeomanry, with the Diplomatic Service and in the Foreign Office. On 19 July 1904 he married Dutch Baroness Julie Marie (Julia Mary) de Tuyll van Serooskerken, born at The Hague, daughter of Baron Reginald de Tuyll van Serooskerken and wife Countess Anna Mathilda van Limburg-Stirum[2] (alleged illegitimate daughter of William III of the Netherlands); Lady Sheffield was an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and a Lady of Grace of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.[3] They had one daughter and four sons, including George Berkeley Sheffield.[4]

During the First World War he served as a captain in the Lincolnshire Yeomanry.[5]

Sheffield was a director of Great Central Railway from 1908 until it was combined with the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923. Postwar, he was member of Parliament for Brigg between 1922 and 1929. He was a Justice of the Peace in Lincolnshire. He was Mayor of Scunthorpe in 1936 and he was Deputy Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.[4]

He lived at 8 South Audley Street in London, and was a member of the Turf Club, the Jockey Club, the Orleans Club and the Beefsteak Club.[3]

Sheffield is one of the great-great-grandfathers of Cara Delevingne and is great-grandfather of Samantha Cameron.

Political career

Sheffield fue miembro del Consejo del Condado de Lindsey de 1902 a 1906 y concejal de 1908 a 1915. Fue Alto Sheriff de Lincolnshire en 1905. En febrero de 1907 fue elegido diputado por la circunscripción de Brigg en Lincolnshire ; fue derrotado en las elecciones de febrero de 1910. Reelegido por Brigg en 1922 , ocupó su escaño hasta su derrota en mayo de 1929. Cuando Scunthorpe obtuvo su estatuto como municipio en 1936, Sheffield fue su primer alcalde. [ 3 ]

Referencias

  1. ↑ O'Grady, John (1996). La vida y obra de Sarah Purser . Dublín: Four Courts Press. pág.  192. ISBN 1-85182-241-0.
  2. ^ "Anna Mathilde van Limburg Stirum (n. 24 de julio de 1854, m. 14 de mayo de 1932) - Página de persona 63259" . thepeerage.com .
  3. 1 2 3 Michael Stenton y Stephen Lees, Quién es quién de los miembros del Parlamento británico, Volumen III: 1919-1945 , Harvester Press 1979, pág. 325.
  4. 1 2 "Sir Berkeley Digby George Sheffield, 6.º Bt" . The Peerage . Consultado el 7 de octubre de 2020 .
  5. ↑ WO 374/61841 conservado en los Archivos Nacionales de Kew. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C731962
  • Hansard 1803–2005: contribuciones en el Parlamento por Berkeley Sheffield