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SEBRIGHT, SIR JOHN SAUNDERS, BART., brother of Sir Thomas Sebright Saunders, Bart. (qv); bapt. 19 Oct 1725; adm. Feb 1734/5; left 1741; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 18 Apr 1741; Lieut. and Capt., 20 Feb 1744; Capt. -Lieut., 2 May 1749; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 20 Nov 1750; Col., 83rd Foot 14 Oct 1758-60 [?], 52nd Foot 27 Nov 1760 – Apr 1762; Major-Gen., 13 Oct 1761; Col., 18th Foot, from 1 Apr 1762; Lieut. -Gen., 30 Apr 1770; Gen., 20 Nov 1782; succ, brother as 6th baronet 25 Oct 1761; MP Bath 28 Apr 1763-74, 24 Nov 1775-80; JP Hertfordshire; m. 15 May 1766 Sarah, third dau. of Edward Knight, Wolverley, Worcs.; d. 23 Feb 1794.

SEBRIGHT, SIR JOHN SAUNDERS, BART., eldest son of Sir John Saunders Sebright, Bart. (qv); b. 23 May 1767; adm. 4 Feb 1778; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 6 Apr 1785; Lieut. and Capt., 11 Jul 1792; retd. 3 Oct 1794; succ. father as 7th baronet 23 Feb 1794; JP Hertfordshire, High Sheriff 1797-8; MP Hertfordshire 1807-34; urged the amendment of the game laws, to which he attributed increased rural crime; protested against monopolies of all kinds; seconded Lord John Russell’s motion for leave to bring in the first Reform Bill 1 Mar 1831; a practical agriculturalist and breeder of domestic animals, including the “Sebright bantam”; author, The Art of Improving the Breeds of Domestic Animals, 1809, Observations on Hawking, 1826, and Observations upon the Instinct of Animals, 1836; m. 6 Aug 1793 Harriet, only dau. of Richard Croftes MP, West Harling, Norfolk; d. 15 Apr 1846. DNB.

SEDLEY, SIR CHARLES, BART., only son of Sir Charles Sedley, Bart., and Elizabeth, dau. of William Frith, Nuthall, Notts.; bapt. Oxton, Notts. 19 May 1721 (IGI); succ. father as 2nd baronet 18 Feb 1729/30; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1732; left 1738; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Feb 1738/9; DCL 13 Apr 1749; MP Nottingham 26 May 1747-54, and from 1774; of Nuthall, Notts.; d. unm. 23 Aug 1778.

SELWYN, WILLIAM, brother of Charles Jasper Selwyn (qv); b. 14 Jun 1732; adm. Mar 1739/40; KS 1745; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1749, adm. pens. 25 May 1749, scholar 11 May 1750, matr. 1749; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Jul 1749, called to bar 6 Nov 1754, Bencher 10 Nov 1780, Treasurer 1793; KC 1780; [perhaps Counsel for Colonial Business, Home Office Jul 1782 – Apr 1783, Dec 1783 – Feb 1796]; MP Whitchurch 17 Mar 1783-90; m. 15 Sep 1763 Frances Elizabeth, dau. of John Dod, Woodford, Essex; d. 21 Aug 1817.

SEYMOUR, HENRY, son of Francis Seymour MP, Sherborne, Dorset, and Elizabeth, widow of Edward Richard Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbroke MP, Col. 37th Foot, and dau. of Alexander Popham MP, Littlecote, Wilts.; half-brother of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1738/9 (Powell's); left 1747; New Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Apr 1747; Grand Tour (Italy) 1751-2; a Groom of the Bedchamber 16 Feb 1763 – 17 Jan 1765; MP Totnes 7 Apr 1763-8, Huntingdon 1768-74, Evesham 1774-80; settled at Prunay, near Versailles, France 1778; the neighbour and penultimate lover of Madame Du Barry; returned to England in 1792; his property in France was confiscated, and bundles of his tradesmens’ bills and other papers are now in the Archives Nationales, Paris; author of a French prose translation of William Mason’s poem The English Garden, 1788; m. 1st, 24 Jul 1753 Lady Caroline Cowper, only dau. of William Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper; m. 2nd, 5 Oct 1775 Louise Thérèse, widow of Comte Guillaume de Panthou, and dau. of Charles de La Martillière, Seigneur de Chançay; d. 14 Apr 1807. DNB.

SHAFTO, ROBERT DUNCOMBE, eldest son of Robert Eden Duncombe Shafto MP, Whitworth Park, Durham, and Catharine, third dau. of Sir John Eden, Bart., MP; nephew of John Shafto (qv); b. 7 Apr 1806; adm. 27 Jan 1819 (Best's); left 1821; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 4 Oct 1823, fellow commoner 20 Oct 1823, matr. 1823; MP (Whig/Liberal) North Durham 1847-68; DL Co. Durham 1848, JP Wiltshire 1846; m. 23 Oct 1838 Charlotte Rosa, youngest dau. of William Baring MP, Lulworth Castle, Dorset; d. 22 Mar 1889.

SHAFTO, ROBERT, son of John Shafto MP, Whitworth, co. Durham, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Jackson, Nunnington, Yorks.; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1740 (Greet's); left 1749; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 Nov 1749; High Sheriff, Northumberland 1754; MP Co. Durham 9 Dec 1760-8, Downton 21 Feb 1780-4, 19 Jul 1784-90; his wife had inherited an electoral interest at Downton from her father in 1779; m. 1st, 18 Apr 1774 Anne, dau. of Thomas Duncombe (qv) and his first wife; m. 2nd, 1 Jun 1788 Mary Nelson; d. 24 Nov 1797.

SHARPE, FANE WILLIAM, eldest son of John Sharpe MP, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, Solicitor to the Treasury, and Olive Cartwright, Holborn; nephew of Gregory Sharpe (qv); b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1737/8; KS (Capt. ) 1743; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1747, matr. 26 Jun 1747, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1747 – void by marriage 26 Mar 1752; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 14 Aug 1747; MP Callington from 11 Feb 1756; FRS 5 Jul 1764; FSA 17 Dec 1767; bequeathed £500 for the use of the King’s Scholars elected annually to the Universities; m. 17 Mar 1752 Mary, only child of George Newport, London, merchant; d. 21 Oct 1771.

By his will dated 30 Sep 1771 (proved 8 Nov 1771) he gave to William Markham (adm.1733, qv), formerly Head Master of the School and then Bishop of Chester, and to John Thomas, Dean of Westminster, “the sum of £500 to be by them disposed of [for] the benefit of Westminster School or College as they shall think fit”. The fund was subsequently consolidated with the School Exhibition Fund, and the benefaction was commemorated by an exhibition known as the F.W.Sharpe exhibition.

SHELLEY, HENRY, son of Henry Shelley (adm. 1737/8, qv); bapt. 12 Apr 1767; adm. 17 Apr 1777; in school list 1781; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Nov 1783; Cornet, 1st Life Guards 18 Nov 1790; Lieut., 15 Apr 1791; Capt., 30 Apr 1794; half-pay, 97th Foot 30 Dec 1795; 20th Foot 15 Sep 1799; 85th Foot 1802; half-pay; MP Lewes from 1802; d. 31 Dec 1811.

SHELLEY, SIR JOHN, BART., only son of Sir John Shelley, Bart. MP, and his second wife Hon. Margaret Pelham, sister of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (qv); b.; adm. Jan 1744/5 (Morel's); left 1748; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. pens. 17 Sep 1748, matr. 1748; MP East Retford 24 Dec 1751-68, Newark 1768-74, New Shoreham 1774-80; Keeper of the Records, Tower of London, from 1755; Clerk of the Pipe, Exchequer, from 19 Jan 1758; Treasurer of the Household 20 Nov 1766 – Jun 1777; Privy Councillor 3 Dec 1766; succ. father as 5th baronet 6 Sep 1771; m. 1st, 27 Aug 1769 Wilhelmina, dau. of John Newnham, Maresfield Park, Sussex; m. 2nd, 14 Feb 1775 Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Woodcock, Lincoln’s Inn; d. 16 Sep 1783, aged 52.