Sir Robert Sheffield, 5th Baronet

Sir Robert Sheffield, 5th Baronet (1823–1886) was a Royal Horse Guards officer, landowner, and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire.

Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford,[1] in 1842 he purchased a commission as a cornet in the Royal Horse Guards.[2] He was promoted, also by purchase, to lieutenant in 1845[3] and to captain in 1849.[4] In 1861 he was granted brevet rank as a major,[5] and he retired from the army later that year.[6] On 7 November 1862 he inherited the Sheffield baronetcy and the Normanby Hall estate in Lincolnshire and became a Justice of the Peace.[1] Sheffield was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire in 1852[7] and High Sheriff of the county in 1872.[8]

Sheffield married Priscilla Isabel Laura Dumaresq, a daughter of Colonel Henry Dumaresq and Lady Elizabeth Sophia Butler-Danvers, grand-daughter of Brinsley Butler, 2nd Earl of Lanesborough, and they had one son and three daughters.[1]

Sheffield died in 1886.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Burke's Peerage, volume 2 (2003), page 3190
  2. ^ "No. 20122". The London Gazette. 22 July 1842. p. 2014.
  3. ^ "No. 20449". The London Gazette. 28 February 1845. p. 678.
  4. ^ "No. 20998". The London Gazette. 13 July 1849. p. 2224.
  5. ^ "No. 22509". The London Gazette. 10 May 1861. p. 2003.
  6. ^ "No. 22551". The London Gazette. 27 September 1861. p. 3859.
  7. ^ "No. 21431". The London Gazette. 15 April 1853. p. 1099.
  8. ^ "No. 23825". The London Gazette. 6 February 1872. p. 403.
  9. ^ Burke's Peerage, volume 3 (2003), page 3381
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