SHELFORD, FREDERIC, second son of Sir William Shelford KCMG MICE, Great George Street, Westminster, civil engineer, and Anna, dau. of Thomas Sopwith FRS, Cleveland Square, Bayswater, mining engineer; b. 14 Nov 1871; adm. 22 Sep 1882 (J); left Apr 1883; went to Dulwich Coll.; City and Guilds Institute; London Univ., matr. Jan 1888; BSc 1892; articled to father Oct 1891; AMICE 2 Mar 1897; MICE 11 Feb 1902; consulting engineer, West African and other government railways; also called to bar [check]; m. 14 Nov 1899 Mildred Alice, second dau. of Sir Montague Frederick Ommanney GCMG KCB ISO, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies; d. 15 Jul 1943.

Sheldon, Walter Basil Sirr, son of Walter Sirr Sheldon MRCS, and Ethel, d. of James Ernest Caithness; b. 16 Feb. 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (A); left July 1927; adm. a solicitor June 1934; RASC 1939-46 (Lieut.-Col.), OBE (Med.) June 1944; Cdr USA Legion of Merit 1946; m. 1st 25 Jan. 1930 Mollie, sister of Brook Anthony Bernacchi (qv); 2nd 22 Nov. 1935 Violet Eva, d. of Sir Montague Lush (qv); 3rd Joyce Mary, d. of Harold Norman of Kew Gardens; d. 18 Sept. 1965.

Sheldon, Anthony John (known at school as Morgan-Griffiths, Anthony John), son of Capt. John Brunt RA and Florence Marie, d. of John Edward Sheldon of Beoley Hall, Worcs.; stepson of John Morgan-Griffiths; b. 15 Aug. 1919; adm. May 1933 (H), (G) 1934; left July 1936; Sankey­ Sheldon Co. 1936-9; RNVR 1939-50 (Lieut.-Cdr); VRD; chairman Harry Ferguson Holdings Ltd and Tractor Research Ltd 1960; invented twin viscous couplings for four-wheel drive sys­tems in passenger cars; High Sheriff I. of Wight 1986-7; Vice-Commodore Roy. Yacht Squad­ron 1988; m. 8 Dec. 1950 Elizabeth Mary, d. of Harry George Ferguson, tractor inventor, of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucs.; 20 Dec. 2012.

SHEFFIELD, SAMPSON, son of Sampson Sheffield, Navestock, Essex, and Jane, widow of Ralph Fetherston, and dau. of Reynold Greene, Navestock, Essex; b.; adm. 23 May 1657; a boarder; KS (aged 12) 1658; d. at school 1662.

SHEBBEARE, CHARLES JOHN, eldest son of Rev. Charles Hooper Shebbeare, Vicar of Wykeham, Yorks., and Lucy Marian, elder dau. of Rev. John Robert Inge, Vicar of Seamer, Yorks.; b. 15 Apr 1865; adm. 12 Jun 1879; QS 1879; left May 1884; St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 20 Oct 1884; migr. to Christ Church, Oxford 1885; BA 1888; MA 1905; DD (check); ordained deacon 1888, priest 1889 (both London); Curate, Enfield, Middlesex 1888-91, Milford, Surrey 1891-8; Rector of Swerford, Oxfordshire 1898-1921; Rector of Stanhope, Durham 1921-42; Chaplain in Ordinary to King George V 1921; Select Preacher, Oxford Univ. 1917-9, Cambridge Univ. 1927; Wilde Lecturer in Natural and Comparative Religion, Oxford 1924-6; Lecturer in Pastoral Theology, Cambridge 1927; Master, Wear Valley Beagles 1930-42; author, Religion in an Age of Doubt, 1914, and other works; m. 20 Jan 1914 Evelyne, dau. of Rev. Conway Joyce, Vicar of Sydenham, Oxfordshire; d. 16 Oct 1945.

Shears, Eric Meynott Hope, son of Daniel Frederick Shears, of Portswood, Southampton; b. Oct. 22, 1887; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (H); left Easter 1904.

Shearme, John Stewart, eldest son of John Shearme, of Bude, Cornwall, by Lucy, daughter of Alfred Browne, of Plymouth, Devon; b. April 14, 1873; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 16, 1886; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. July 1892 (adm. sub-sizar Oct. 7, 1892, sizar 1893); 1st class Classical Tripos, pt. i, 1895; B.A. 1895; M.A. 1900; asst. master at Repton School since 1897; Capt., unattached (T.F.), June 7, 1907; Repton School O.T.C.; m. Aug. 8, 1899, Ethel Minnie, second daughter of the Rev. Augustus de Morgan Hensley, asst. master at Haileybury Coll.; d. April 12, 1941.

Shearme, David, brother of John Stewart Shearme (q.v.); b. Jan. 13, 1875; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 22, 1887; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with senior Samwaies) July 1893 (adm. sub­ sizar Sept. 29, 1893, sizar 1894); president of the Union 1895; B.A. 1896; I.C.S. 1897; arrived in India Dec. 3, 1898; Asst. Commissioner, Burma; under-secretary to Govt. April 1903; private secretary to Lieut.-Gov. Dec. 1904; Secretary to Govt. of Burma Aug. 1907; retired Oct. 26, 1911; d. Jan. 9, 1913.

Shearman, Philip Montague, brother of John Shearman (adm. 1926, qv); b. 9 May 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (H); left July 1938; RASC 1941-6 (Capt.); m. 1944 Rachel Monica, d. of William Percy Townsley of Harrogate; d. in a fire on a liner in Hamburg 11 Jan. 1946.

Philip Montague “Phil” Shearman was born at Hampstead, London on the 9th of May 1920 the son of John Shearman OW and Ludmilla Isabelle (nee Davy) Shearman of 45, Devereux Drive, Watford in Hertfordshire. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from September 1933 to July 1938. He was a member of the 2nd Rowing VIII in 1936 and of the 1st Rowing VIII in 1937 where he rowed at No. 2. He was fond of sailing and of bell ringing. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps and was promoted to Corporal in September 1937. He went on to study at the Institute of Automobile Engineers but did not complete his course before he joined the army. He attended an Officer Producing Centre as a Cadet before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps on the 18th of January 1941.
He was married in Cheshire in 1944 to Rachel Monica (nee Townsley) of Leatherhead in Surrey; they had a daughter, Philippe Ann, born on the 6th of May 1945.
He was killed in a fire while on board a German liner at Hamburg harbour.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at St Nicholas’ Church, West Itchenor in Sussex.
He is buried at Hamburg Cemetery Plot 3A, Row F, Grave 13.

Shearman, Montague, son of Sir Montague Shearman, Judge of the King's Bench Div., of South Kensington, by Mary Louise, daughter of Job Long, of New York; b. July 17, 1885; adm. Sept. 22, 1898 (R); exhibitioner 1899; Q.S. (non-resident) 1900; left July 1903; Balliol Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1903; B.A. 1907; M.A. 1910; called to the bar at the Inner Temple Nov. 17, 1908; Oxford Circuit; a member of the London County Council 1913-22; served in the R.N.V.R. 1914-5; asst. legal adviser, Foreign Office, July 15, 1919; representa­tive of the Procurator-General on the Contraband Committee in the Foreign Office April 1915 - Dec. 1918; author of The Press Laws of Foreign Countries (1925); O.B.E. June 7, 1918; Claims Adviser to the Foreign Office Oct. 1, 1929; he assembled a magnificent collection of modern pictures and was one of the earliest appreciators in England of Matisse and Utrillo; hon. secretary of the Contemporary Art Society; d. Feb. 4, 1940; unm.