Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave (December 161124 August 1658) was an English peer who supported the

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cause during the

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period.

Early life

Edmund Sheffield was born in December 1611 to Sir John Sheffield (drowned in 1614), son of

Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave Captain Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, 3rd Baron Sheffield, (7 December 1565 – 6 October 1646) was an English peer and member of parliament, who served as Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire from 1603 to 1619 and Vice-Admiral of Yorksh ...

, and Grizel Anderson, daughter of Sir Edmund Anderson,

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.Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 52, p. 11.

House of Lords

As grandson of the First Earl, Mulgrave succeeded to his title in October 1646, and also succeeded his grandfather as Vice-Admiral of Yorkshire. He sat in the

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until its abolition, and was a member of the

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during the

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. In 1658 he was nominated as a member of

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, but, like most of the other peers summoned, declined to serve.

Personal life

Mulgrave married Elizabeth Cranfield, daughter of the

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. They had a son,

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Death and legacy

On 24 August 1658, Mulgrave died. Their son,

, who succeeded to the earldom, was later created Marquess of Normanby and Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, and was

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and

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during the reign of Queen Anne.

References

Sources

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The Concise Dictionary of National Biography ''The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985'' is a dictionary of biographies of people from the United Kingdom. It was published in three volumes by Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is ...

'' *''Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803'' (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808

House of Lords Journal, 12 November 1646

, - 1611 births 1658 deaths 17th-century English nobility

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