Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet
DL (born 9 May 1946) is a British
Baronet
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and father of
Samantha Cameron
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, who is the wife of former
British Prime Minister
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David Cameron
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.
He was educated at
Eton College
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. The son of Edmund Sheffield and Nancy Soames, he succeeded to the baronetcy upon the death of his uncle Sir Robert Sheffield, 7th Baronet in 1977.
He married
Annabel Jones
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in 1969 with whom he had two daughters,
Samantha Cameron
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and
Emily Sheffield
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. He married secondly Victoria Penelope Walker in 1977 with whom he had two daughters and one son.
He served as a
Conservative
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Councillor on
Humberside County Council
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History
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from 1985 to 1993. He is the owner of
Sutton Park, Yorkshire
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and a director of Normanby Estate Company Ltd.
He is a member of
White's
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Status
White's is the oldes ...
,
Pratt's
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History
The club takes its name from William Nathaniel Pratt, who lived ther ...
, and the
Beefsteak Club
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The first beefsteak clu ...
.
In 2011 Sheffield said that he earned as much as £350,000 a year from eight
wind turbines
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located on his estate at Bagmoor near
Normanby Hall
Normanby Hall is a classic English mansion, located near the village of Burton-upon-Stather, north of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.
History
The present hall was built in 1825–30 to the designs of Robert Smirke for Sir Robert Sheffie ...
in
Lincolnshire
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.
References
1946 births
Living people
People educated at Eton College
Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain
Deputy Lieutenants of Lincolnshire
Reginald Sheffield
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Life
He was born as Matthew Reginald Sheffield Cassan on 18 February 1901 in the St. George's, Hanover Square district of London, to Matth ...
Members of Humberside County Council
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