SHERMAN, HENRY, son of John Sherman, Boughton, Kent; b.; adm.; QS 1706; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1710, matr. 9 Jun 1710, aged 19, Westminster Student 9 Jul 1711 – void 10 Jul 1729 (expiry year of grace as V. Staverton from 16 Jul 1728), Tutor 1716-27, Junior Censor 1721-3, Senior Censor 1724-6, Catechist 1727; BA 1714; MA 1717; ordained deacon 25 Sep 1720, priest 24 Sep 1721 (both Oxford); John Wesley was an undergraduate pupil of his while he was a tutor at Christ Church; Vicar of Staverton, Northants., from 1 Jul 1728; buried Staverton, Northants 23 May 1739.
SHERLOCK, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 14) Feb 1752.
SHERLEY, WALSINGHAM, sixth son of Anthony Sherley, Preston, Sussex, and Barbara, third dau. of Sir Thomas Walsingham, Kt; bapt. 28 Jul 1589; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1608, adm. scholar 1609, matr. Easter 1609; BA 1612/3; MA 1616; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1614 – c. 1621; ordained; Rector of Stepney, Middlesex 18 Feb 1618/9 –28; Vicar of Hawnes, Beds., from 1624; m. 5 Feb 1623/4 Constance Grub; d. 13 Jun 1637.
SHERLEY, HENRY, son of Sir George Sherley, Kt, Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench (I), and Mary, dau. of Edward Halfhide, Aspenden, Herts. ; b. ; at school under Osbaldeston six years (J. E. B. Mayor & R. F. Scott, Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb. , i, 6); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 16 Jun 1631, aged 16; migrated to Trinity Coll. , matr. Mich. 1631, scholar 1634; BA 1635/6; MA 1639; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1637 – c. 1645; living 12 Jan 1647.
Sheringham, Hugh Tempest, elder son of the Rev. Harry Alsager Sheringham, Vicar of Tewkesbury, Gloucs; b. 11 Oct., 1876; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 25, 1890; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with junior Samwaies) July 1895 (adm. sub-sizar Oct. 1, 1895); B.A. 1898; angling editor of the Field 1903; author of An Angler's Hours (1905), and other works; m. Jan. 4, 1913, Jessie Catharine, daughter of Lieut.-Col. John Albert Anderson, R.A.M.C.; d. Dec. 15, 1930.
SHERINGAME, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1626 (Chapter Muniments 33256).
SHERING (or SHEERING), EDMUND, son of Edmund Shering, Lillington, Dorset; b.; adm.; KS in 1656; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1659, matr. 9 Dec 1659, Westminster Student; BA 1663; MA 1666; ordained; Vicar of Christ Church, Newgate Street, with St. Leonard, Foster Lane, from 9 Jul 1672; d. 16 Dec 1690, aged 48.
SHERIDAN, THOMAS, third son of Rev. Thomas Sheridan DD, King’s Mint House, Capel Street, Dublin, schoolmaster, and Elizabeth, only child of Charles MacFadden, Quilca House, co. Cavan; b.; adm. (aged 11) Feb 1732/3; KS 1734; left 1734; Trinity Coll. Dublin, matr. 26 May 1735, scholar 1738; BA 1739; became an actor; appeared as Richard III at Dublin Jan 1743; for several years manager of Theatre Royal, Smock Alley, Dublin; played at Covent Garden 1754-5 and at Drury Lane 1744, 1763; ranked by Churchill in the Rosciad as next to Garrick as a tragic actor; a successful lecturer on elocution; gave readings with Henderson in London; procured the grant of a government pension to Samuel Johnson and also to himself (G. B. Hill, ed, Boswell’s Johnson, i, 372-7, 385-6); MA Oxford 28 Nov 1758, Cambridge 16 Mar 1769; hon. freeman, City of Edinburgh 8 Jul 1761; a voluminous writer; author, A General; Dictionary of the English Language, 1780; father of Right Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan PC MP, politician and playwright; m. 1747 Frances, dau. of Ven. Philip Chamberlayne DD, Archdeacon of Glendalough; d. 14 Aug 1788. DNB.
SHERIDAN, FORDYCE JAMES, eldest son of John Sheridan, Kensington; b. 12 Dec 1864; adm. 13 Jun 1879 (H & G); left Aug 1880; adm. Inner Temple 11 Dec 1882, called to bar 17 Nov 1886; disbarred at own request 20 Jan 1899. [father perhaps solicitor, mother Laura C. ---, they living at Haroldstone Road, Middlesex, 1881 Census]
SHERARD, PHILIP; b.; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1722; in under school list 1723.