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Shorter, Lewis Arthur Hurst, son of Lewis Richard Shorter, of Kensington, by Madeleine, daughter of Hurst Daniell; b. Aug. 25, 1888; adm. May 3, 1900 (H); left Dec. 1905; a member of the London Stock Exchange 1913; author of The Golden Gateway (1922), and other works; d. 1966.

Shorter, Geoffrey Richard Hurst, brother of Lewis Arthur Hurst Shorter (q.v.); b. Dec. 21, 1891; adm. Sept. 28, 1905 (A); left Easter 1908; d. circa 1960.

SHORT, WILLIAM ERLE, son of Mayow Short (adm. 1809, qv), and his second wife; b. 30 Dec 1855; adm. 21 Jun 1867; left May 1870; went to King’s Coll. London; a tea planter in Assam; subsequently tea visiting agent, Ceylon Co., Colombo; d. unm. at Lavinia, Ceylon 15 Nov 1881.

SHORT, THOMAS VOWLER, eldest son of Ven. William Short DD, Archdeacon of Cornwall, and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Tilliman Hodgkinson, Rector of Sarsden, Oxfordshire; b. 16 Sep 1790; adm. 1803; KS 1805; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1809, matr. 17 May 1809, Westminster Student, Tutor and Censor 1816-29; 1st cl. Classics and 1st cl. Mathematics 1812; BA 1813; MA 1815; BD 1824; DD 1837; Proctor 1823; Public Examiner 1820, 1821, 1824; ordained deacon 19 Dec 1813, priest 18 Dec 1814 (both Oxford); Curate, Cowley, Oxfordshire 1816-23; Select Preacher, Oxford 1823, 1830, Whitehall Preacher 1823 (still 1829); Rector of Stockleigh Pomeroy, Devon 1823-6; Rector of Kingsworthy, Hampshire 1826-34; Rector of St. George’s, Bloomsbury, London 21 Feb 1834-41; consecrated Bishop of Sodor and Man 30 May 1841; translated to St. Asaph 21 Nov 1846; res. St. Asaph 1870; author, Sketch of the History of the Church of England, 1832, and other works; m. 26 Feb 1833 Mary, widow of John Josias Conybeare (qv), and dau. of Rev. Charles Davis, Fellow of Pembroke Coll., Oxford; d. 13 Apr 1872. DNB.

Short, Roland Humphrey Dobree, son of Ernest Henry Short, author, and his first wife Agnes, d. of Rev. Osmond Dobree, Vicar of Colwich, Staffs, and Prebendary of Lichfield; b. 24 May 1907; adm. Apr. 1921 (H); left July 1925; Univ. Coll. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1931, MB 1935, lecturer in pathological histology; RAMC 1939-45 (Lieut.-Col.); Fellow UCL, PhD 1949; m. 23 Oct. 1939 Hava Eva, d. of Prof. Hugo Bergman of Jerusalem Univ.; d. 29 Oct. 1953.

SHORT, MAYOW, son of Mayow Short (adm. 1809, qv), and his second wife; b. 28 Mar 1854; adm. 26 May 1864; left Dec 1868; went to King’s Coll. London; Lieut., Royal Munster Fusiliers 9 Aug 1874; Capt., 15 Oct 1881; reserve list 1887; cocoa and coconut estate proprietor, Richmond, Tobago, West Indies; m. 22 Sep 1898 Kate Henderson, dau. of Benjamin Lees, Whim Estate, Tobago, West Indies; d. at St. Raphael, France 24 Oct 1926.

SHORT, MAYOW, second son of Charles Short, Emsworth, Hampshire, barrister, Bencher, Middle Temple, and Grace, dau. of Humphrey Millett, Enys, Cornwall; b. Jan 1800; adm. 3 Jan 1809; Min. Can. 1813; KS 1814; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1817, matr. 22 May 1817, Westminster Student (still 1829); BA 1821; MA 1823; adm. Middle Temple 9 Jan 1815, called to bar 13 Jun 1823; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Nov 1831; equity draftsman, Western Circuit; Quarter Sessions Judge, Kingston, Jamaica 1836-56; Registrar, Married Women’s Property Act, from 1857; m. 1st, 1 Sep 1835 Frances, widow of John Shawe Phillips, Culham, Oxfordshire; m. 2nd, 15 Jun 1847 Annis Rachel, dau. of Rev. Richard Panton DD, Widcombe, Somerset; d. 28 Jan 1869.

SHORT, GEORGE GLEN, son of Mayow Short (adm. 1809, qv), and his second wife; b. 25 Jun 1863; adm. 25 Jan 1878 (H); left Aug 1879; d. unm. 29 Jun 1909.

SHORT, EDWARD MORRIESON DE COUCY, son of Mayow Short (adm. 1809, qv), and his second wife; b. 18 Aug 1857; adm. 22 Jan 1869; left May 1870; went to Charterhouse Sch., scholar 13 Jun 1870 – 9 Aug 1876; Writer, Ceylon Civil Service 1878; Police Magistrate 1883; acting Assistant Government Agent, Kalutara 1886; Assistant Government Agent, Matale Oct 1896; acting Government Agent, Badulla 1903; Chairman of Municipal Council and Mayor of Colombo 1905-10; retd. 1 Dec 1910; m. 14 Jul 1897 Anne Louisa, third dau. of Capt. William Butler Fellowes, Madras Light Cavalry, previously EICS Madras; d. 14 Aug 1927.