Sherard (name)
Sherard is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Bennet Sherard (other), multiple people * James Sherard (1666–1738), English apothecary, botanist and amateur musician * Michael Sherard (1910–1998), British fashion designer * Philip Sherard (other), multiple people * Robert Sherard (1861–1943), English writer and journalist * William Sherard (other), multiple people Given name * Sherard Cowper-Coles (born 1955), British diplomat * Lord Sherard Manners (–1742), English nobleman and Member of Parliament * Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles (1866–1936), British metallurgist and grandfather of Sherard Cowper-Coles * Sherard Osborn (1822–1875), British Royal Navy admiral and explorer * Sherard Parker (born 1980), Canadian actor * Sherard Vines Walter Sherard Vines (1890–1974), known as Sherard Vines, was an English author and academic. He began publishing poetry in the 1910s, then in the 1920s spent five ...
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Bennet Sherard (other)
Bennet Sherard may refer to: * Bennet Sherard, 2nd Baron Sherard (1621–1700), Custos Rotulorum of Rutland, MP for Leicestershire * Bennet Sherard (MP) (1649–1701), Member of Parliament for Rutland * Bennet Sherard, 1st Earl of Harborough (1677–1732), British peer and Member of Parliament * Bennet Sherard, 3rd Earl of Harborough Bennet Sherard, 3rd Earl of Harborough (3 September 1709 – 23 February 1770), styled Lord Sherard from 1732 to 1750, was a British aristocrat who inherited the earldom of Harborough. Early life Born on 3 September 1709, he was the eldest surv ...

James Sherard
James Sherard (1 November 1666 – 12 February 1738) was an English apothecary, botanist, and amateur musician. Career He was born in Bushby, Leicestershire to George and Mary Sherwood; it is unknown why his surname was changed. His older brother, William, also became a noted botanist. James Sherard may have been educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, which his brother attended, but his name is nowhere to be found in the published list of students. On 7 February 1682, apothecary Charles Watts, who served as curator of Chelsea Physic Garden, took him in as an apprentice. After honing his craft with Watts, Sherard moved to Mark Lane, London, where he started his own very successful business.Webb. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1706. Music In time, Sherard came into contact with Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford through his brother, who had once served as a tutor in Russell's family. Sherard dedicated his first set of trio sonatas (1701, op. 1) to ...
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Michael Sherard
Michael Sherard (17 July 1910 – 26 December 1998) was a British fashion designer and a member of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers, which represented the British couture Couture may refer to: People * Couture (surname) Places Belgium * Couture-Saint-Germain, a village in the municipality of Lasne, Belgium Canada * Couture crater and Lac Couture, an impact crater and the lake that covers it in Quebec, Canada ... industry in the World War II, wartime and post-war years. Operating his own label from the 1940s to 1960s, he is remembered primarily for his evening and occasion gowns. He also helped train future British designers, including Caroline Charles, and was later a design academic. Early life and career Michael Sherard was born Malcolm Henry Sherrard, recorded in portraits of his family now held by the National Portrait Gallery, London, National Portrait Gallery. Later he would change his professional name, but insist that he was not a couturier but ...
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Philip Sherard (other)
Philip Sherard may refer to: *Philip Sherard (MP) (1623–1695), Member of Parliament for Rutland *Philip Sherard, 2nd Earl of Harborough (1680–1750) *Lt-Gen. Philip Sherard (d. 1790), Guards officer during the Seven Years' War *Philip Sherard, 5th Earl of Harborough (1767–1807) *Philip Sherard, 9th Baron Sherard (1804–1886) *Philip Sherard, 11th Baron Sherard (1851–1924) See also *Philip Sherrard Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard (23 September 1922 – 30 May 1995) was a British author and translator. His work includes translations of Modern Greek poets, and books on Modern Greek literature and culture, metaphysics, theology, art and aesthet ...

Robert Sherard
Robert Harborough Sherard (3 December 1861 – 30 January 1943) was an English writer and journalist. He was a friend, and the first biographer, of Oscar Wilde, as well as being Wilde's most prolific biographer in the first half of the twentieth century. Life Born on 3 December 1861 at Putney, London, England, Sherard began life as Robert Harborough Sherard Kennedy and was the son of the Reverend Bennet Sherard Calcraft Kennedy, an illegitimate son of the 6th Earl of Harborough by the actress Emma Love. His mother was Jane Stanley Wordsworth, a granddaughter of the poet William Wordsworth. He dropped the surname Kennedy upon moving to Paris in late 1882 after a quarrel with his father, who cut him off from the expected family inheritance. Sherard was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, the University of Oxford and the University of Bonn. Sherard married three times. In 1887 he married Marthe Lipska, a daughter of the Baron de Stern. In 1908, he married Irene Osgood. In ...
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William Sherard (other)
William Sherard (1659–1728) was an English botanist. William Sherard may also refer to: * William Sherard, 1st Baron Sherard (1588–1640), English courtier See also * William Sherrard * William Shepard (other) William Shepard was a Massachusetts soldier and legislator. William Shepard may also refer to: * William Biddle Shepard, North Carolina legislator See also *William Shepard Wetmore William Shepard Wetmore (January 26, 1801 – June 16, 1862) w ...

Sherard Cowper-Coles
Sir Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles (born 8 January 1955) is a British former diplomat. He was the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009–2010. After leaving the Foreign Office, he worked briefly for BAE Systems as international business development director. He left BAE Systems in 2013 and is now a Senior Adviser to the Group chairman and the Group Chief Executive of HSBC. Early life and education Sherard Cowper-Coles is the son of Sherard Hamilton Cowper-Coles and Dorothy (née Short). His grandfather, the metallurgist Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles, was the son of naval inventor Captain Cowper Phipps Coles. He was educated at Freston Lodge School, New Beacon School, Tonbridge School and Hertford College, Oxford,''Cowper-Coles, Sir Sherard (Louis)'', in ''Who's Who 2008'' (London, A. & C. Black, 2008) where he read classics. In 1982, he married Bridget Mary Elliott. Her father was Neil Elliott, a prominent land agent whose brother was th ...
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Lord Sherard Manners
Lord Sherard Manners ( – 13 January 1742) was an English nobleman and Member of Parliament. Early life Lord Sherard was born around 1713. He was the eldest son of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland and, his second wife, Lady Lucy Sherard. From his parents marriage, his siblings included Lord James Manners, Lord George Manners, Lady Caroline Manners (wife of Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Baronet and, after his death, Sir Robert Burdett, 4th Baronet), Lady Lucy Manners (wife of William Graham, 2nd Duke of Montrose), Gen. Lord Robert Manners ( MP for Kingston upon Hull), Lord Henry Manners, and Maj.-Gen. Lord Charles Manners of the British Army. From his father's first marriage to Catherine Russell (daughter of William Russell, Lord Russell and Lady Rachel Wriothesley), he had nine elder half-siblings, including John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, Lord William Manners (a noted patron of the turf), Lady Catherine Manners (wife of Henry Pelham), Lady Elizabeth Manners (wife of John Monckt ...
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Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles
Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles (8 October 1866 – 9 September 1936) was a British metallurgist, and inventor of the sherardising process of galvanization. Early life He was born in Ventnor, the fourth son of naval inventor Captain Cowper Phipps Coles. He studied at King's College London and Crystal Palace School of Engineering and became a metallurgist. Career He took out a patent on the sherardising process in 1900. Cowper-Coles married his research assistant Constance Hamilton Watts in 1919. The couple continued to work on research together until his death. They had three sons, the eldest of whom, Sherard, was the father of British diplomat Sherard Cowper-Coles. Death He died at home, at Rossall House in Sunbury-on-Thames, of oesophageal cancer Esophageal cancer is cancer arising from the esophagus—the food pipe that runs between the throat and the stomach. Symptoms often include difficulty in swallowing and weight loss. Other symptoms may include pain when sw ...
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Sherard Osborn
Sherard Osborn (25 April 1822 – 6 May 1875) was a Royal Navy admiral and Arctic explorer. Biography Born in Madras, he was the son of an Indian army officer. Osborn entered the navy as a first-class volunteer in 1837, serving until 1844 on , , and . In 1838, he was entrusted with the command of a gunboat at the attack on Kedah in the Malay Peninsula, and was present at the Battle of Canton in 1841, and at the Battle of Woosung in 1842. From 1844 until 1848, he was gunnery mate and lieutenant on , the flagship of Sir George Seymour in the Pacific. He took a prominent part in 1849 in advocating a new search expedition for Sir John Franklin, and in 1850 was appointed to the command of the steam-tender HMS Pioneer (1850) in the Arctic expedition under Horatio Thomas Austin, in the course of which he performed a remarkable sledge-journey to the western extremity of Prince of Wales Island. He published an account of this voyage, entitled ''Stray Leaves from an Arctic Jo ...
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Sherard Parker
Sherard Parker (born 10 March 1980) is a Canadian actor. He has appeared on the Australian Television series ''MDA'' (2005) and in ''The Recruit'' (2003). Career Parker's first appeared in Roger Donaldson's CIA thriller ''The Recruit'' (2003) starring Al Pacino, playing a CIA agent and recently in ''Il Futuro'' (2013), with Rutger Hauer and notably in the British independent film ''He Who Dares'' (2014) playing an SAS captain. His theatre credits include an adaptation of Louise M. Alcott's ''Little Women'', where he played the role of German professor ''Bhaer'' at the Singapore Repertory Theatre. Filmography * ''Island'' (short) (2004) * ''MDA MDA, mda, or ''variation'', may refer to: Places * Moldova, a country in Europe with the ISO 3166-1 country code MDA Politics * Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (2018), ruling coalition government in the Indian State of Meghalaya led by National Pe ...'' (TV series) (2005) * ''The Good Samaritan'' (short) (2005) * ''The Chase'' (short) ( ...
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Sherard Vines
Walter Sherard Vines (1890–1974), known as Sherard Vines, was an English author and academic. He began publishing poetry in the 1910s, then in the 1920s spent five years teaching at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. While in Japan and after his return to England, where he took up a post at University College Hull, he continued to publish poetry, fiction and criticism. His works include ''The Course of English Classicism from the Tudor to Victorian Age'' (1930), a study of classicism in British art; ''Yofuku, or, Japan in Trousers'' (1931), a travel book about his experiences in Japan which was critical of aspects of Japanese culture; and ''A Hundred Years of English Literature'' (1959), a survey of the literature of Britain, the British Empire and the United States. Early life and career Sherard Vines was born in Oxford in 1890. His father, Sydney Howard Vines, was Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford and named his son after William Sherard. He attended ...
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