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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]

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.

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

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.

Shearly-Sanders, Colin Wilkinson, brother of William Douglas Shearly Sanders (q.v.); b. Jan. 23, 1902; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (H); left Dec. 1917; adm. a solicitor March 1923, practises in London; has assumed the additional surname of Shearly; a deckhand in the retreat from Dunkirk May -June 1940; Lieut. R.N.V.R. from Dec. 1940-5; m. 1946, Barbara Winifred, daughter of James Walter, of Ashurst, Kent; d. 1973.

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.

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.

Seymour-Lucas, Sidney Charles, son of John Seymour Lucas, R.A., of Hampstead, by Marie Elizabeth Seymour, daughter of Louis Dieudonne de Cornelissen, of Paris; b. May 9, 1878; adm. Sept. 22, 1892 (H); left April 1895; an artist; d. June 11, 1954.

Sewell, Ivon Govett, son of Frederick John Sewell, of Byfleet, Surrey; b. Jan: 16, 1879; adm. Sept. 28, 1893 (H); left April 1896; 2nd Lieut. Royal Fusiliers June 24, 1899; Lieut. June 27, 1900; Capt. May 4, 1907; served in the South African War 1899-1902; d. at Zungern, West Africa, June 28, 1913.