Showing 20274 results

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.

SHARPE, ERNEST NEWTON, third son of Rev. Henry Sharpe BD, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, Middlesex, and Sarah Hargrave, dau. of Kyrl Allan Deane, Boreenmaragh. Co. Cork; b. 19 Apr 1867; adm. 25 Sep 1879 (H); left May 1885; Clare Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1885; BA 1888; migr. to Ridley Hall; MA 1892; ordained deacon 1890, priest 1891 (both Bath & Wells); Curate, Bath, Somerset 1890-4; Vicar of Emmanuel Church, Hampstead, Middlesex 24 Jul 1894-1908; Rector of St. Paul’s, Kersal Moor, Manchester 1908-12; Rector of Holy Trinity, Marylebone, Middlesex 1912-8; Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth, London 1918-9; Vicar of Paddington, Middlesex 1919-30; Prebendary of St. Paul’s 1920-30; Archdeacon of London and Canon of St. Paul’s 1930-47; Proctor in Convocation for Diocese of London 1922-47; Select Preacher, Cambridge 1936; m. 5 Jun 1894 Alice Eleanor, eldest dau. of Capt. Edward Carter, Marlborough Buildings, Bath, Somerset; d. 20 Jan 1949.

SHARPE, CHRISTOPHER CAMPBELL, brother of Ernest Newton Sharpe (qv); b. 1 Jun 1870; adm. 16 Jun 1881 (J); QS 1884; left Jul 1887; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 6 Oct 1888; BA 1891; MA 1896; assistant master, Maze Hill School, St. Leonard’s on Sea, Sussex 1892-4, Crowthorne School, Berks. 1894; Head Master, South Hill Park School, Bromley, Kent 1897; ordained 1908; Curate, Newport, Isle of Wight 1908-11, Wendover, Bucks. 1911-4; Vicar of Wendover, Bucks. 1914-6; Vicar of South Petherton and Lopen, Somerset 1916-21; Rector of Nettlecombe, Somerset 1921-7; Rector of Steeple, Dorset 1927-33; Vicar of West Lulworth, Dorset 1933-9; Rector of Stoke Charity, Hampshire 1939-46; temp. Chaplain to Forces 19 Feb 1918; served in France during 1914-8 War; m. 14 Jan 1897 Ethel Lavinia, dau. of Skipwith Henry Churchill Tayler, Bengal Civil Service (formerly EICS Bengal); d. 4 Aug 1947.

SHARPE, ALFRED BOWYER, eldest son of Alfred Sharpe MD LRCS, Halford Bridge, Warwicks., and Mary Jane, dau. of Hugh Veitch WS, Stuartfield, Edinburgh; b. 21 Mar 1851; adm. 26 Jan 1865 (James'); QS 1866; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1870, matr. 8 Jun 1870; BA 1874; MA 1877; ordained deacon 1876, priest 1877 (Winchester); Chaplain and Assistant Master, Epsom College 1876-7; held several curacies; Assistant Minister, St. Clement’s, Philadelphia, USA 1891; Vicar of St. Peter’s, Vauxhall, London 1895-8; received into Roman Catholic Church 1898; ordained (RC) 1900; Rector of St. Mary’s, Horseferry Road, Westminster 1900-2; Chaplain, Convent of the Daughters of the Cross, Carshalton, Surrey 1905-8; Westminster Diocesan Missionary; author, Mysticism, 1911, and other works; d. 1933.

SHARPE, ALEXANDER, son of Robert Sharpe (qv); bapt. Tilshead, Wilts. 27 Oct 1656 (IGI); at school under Busby (Alum. Dub. ); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Mar 1672/3, aged 16; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. pens. 4 Feb 1680/1, scholar 1683; BA 1684; ordained; Vicar of Minterne Magna, Dorset 1684; m. Elizabeth ---; d. 1722.

SHARPE, ---; b.; in school list 1801.

SHARPE, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1553 (Chapter Muniments).

SHARP, WILLIAM, third son of Richard Sharp, Armley, near Leeds, Yorkshire, merchant, and Mary, dau. of John Turton, Gildersome, Yorks.; b. 21 Jan 1805; at Wakefield GS 1813-6; adm. 13 Jan 1818; left Dec 1820; articled to his uncle William Sharp, Bradford, Yorks., surgeon 1821; LSA 1826; MRCS 1827; MD Lambeth 1856; Suregon to Bradford Infirmary 1829-43; practised successively at Bradford and Hull; FRS 7 May 1840; Reader in Natural Philosophy, Rugby Sch, . 1849-50; became a homoeopathist 1852; President, British Homeopathic Congress, Leamington 1873; retired from practice 1877; owing to his initiative, “every public school in England now has its science teacher, and every town its local museum”; author, Therapeutics founded upon Organopathy and Antipraxy, 1886; m. 1st, 1833 Anne, dau. of Samuel Hailstone, Bradford, Yorks.; m. 2nd, 10 Mar 1836 Emma, sixth dau. of Rev. John Scott, Vicar of St. Mary’s, Hull; d. 10 Apr 1896. DNB.

Sharp, Ralph Norman, son of John Ernest Emilius Steigenberger Sharp ISO, Sen. Clerk Public Record Office, of Shanklin, I. of Wight, and Mary Elizabeth, d. of Charles Heudebourck Ballance of Hampstead; b. 23 June 1896; adm. Sept. 1910 (H); left July 1914; Queens' Coll. Camb., matric. 1914, BA 1921, MA 1924; YMCA in WWI; Ridley Hall Camb. 1921, ord. dea­con 1922, priest 1923 (Southwark); Curate Christ Church Gipsy Hill 1922-4; CMS missionary Yezd, Iran, 1924, Shiraz 1937; examining chaplain to the Bishop in Iran 1935; lecturer in Ancient Persian and Pahlavi and asst Prof. Shiraz Univ. 1960-7; tutor in Persian Wellington Coll. 1969-74; author of The Inscriptions in Old Persian cuneiform of the Achaemenian Emperors, with translations into modern Persian, English and French; m. 22 Nov. 1930 Gertrude Barbara George Carden MD, d. of Thomas Frederick Carden of Radlett, Herts.; d. 11 Sept. 1995.