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

SHARP, NICHOLAS, of Surrey; b.; adm.; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1563, aged 15, Westminster Student 7 Jan 1563/4 –9; BA 16 Jan 1567/8; adm. Gray’s Inn 1576 [check].

SHAPTER, WILLIAM, brother of Thomas Blackall Shapter (qv); b. 20 Feb 1847; adm. 20 Jan 1860 (James'); QS 1861; left Whitsun 1865, with Dean Thomas exhibition, but did not go to either university; Roman Catholic convert 1865; entered Society of Jesus 7 Dec 1867; ordained priest (RC), serving successively at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, and from 1892 at Holy Cross, St. Helens, Lancs.; d. unm. 23 Dec 1928.

SHAPTER, THOMAS BLACKALL, eldest son of Thomas Shapter MD FRCP, Exeter, Devon, and Elizabeth, only dau. of Rev. Samuel Blackall, Prebendary of Wells, Rector of North Cadbury, Somerset; b. 2 May 1844; adm. 27 Jan 1857 (James'); QS 1858; left 9 May 1862; emigrated to Christchurch, New Zealand, where he practised as a solicitor; subsequently a medical practitioner in New York; d. at Philadelphia, USA 8 Dec 1891.

SHAPTER, LEWIS, brother of Thomas Blackall Shapter (qv); b. 26 Jul 1848; adm. 24 Jan 1862 (James'); QS 1863; left Jan 1867; Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Jan 1867, matr. Mich. 1867; BA 1871; MB 1873; MD 1877; medical practitioner in Exeter; Physician to Devon and Exeter Hospital; m. 3 Sep 1877 Charlotte, youngest dau. of Capt. Edgar Bayly, 12th Foot; d. 13 Nov 1890.

Shakespeare, John Hope, son of Rev. John Howard Shakespeare, sec. Baptist Union, and Amy Gertrude, d. of Rev. William Goodman of Finchley; b. 2 Sept. 1906; adm. Sept. 1920 (KS); left July 1925; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1925, BA 1928, MA 1935; St George's Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1931, MB 1935; practised at Barnet, Herts; d. 18 Jan. 1940.

SHAKESPEAR, GEORGE, only son of George Shakespear, Oxford Street, London, and Walton on Thames, Surrey, architect; b.; adm. 6 Jun 1771; KS (Capt., aged 14) 1772; Wadham Coll. Oxford, adm. fellow commoner 4 Mar 1785, matr. 11 Jan 1785 [sic, check]; adm. Middle Temple 13 Dec 1774; d. 29 Apr 1799.