Sir Charles Herbert Sheffield, 1st Baronet (c. 1706 – 5 September 1774) of Normanby,

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, England, was an illegitimate son of

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and the first of the Sheffield baronets, and the owner of

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(then known as Buckingham House) who sold it to King

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Biography

Sheffield, baptised Charles Herbert, was an illegitimate son of

, and Frances Stewart, who, then or afterwards, was the wife of The Hon. Oliver Lambart, younger son of Charles Lambart, 3rd Earl of Cavan. Sheffield was probably born about 1706 (when his mother was 22 years old, was "under the tuition of Mons. Brezy, at Utretcht", in August 1716, and took the name of Sheffield, instead of Herbert.Under the will of John Sheffield, dated 2 August 1716, and probated 28 March 1721 . He inherited, on the death, 30 October 1735, of the 2nd and last Duke (at his age of 19), the considerable estates of both of these Dukes, in Lincolnshire and elsewhere. He was created a

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on 1 March 1755. He died 5 September 1774.Will of Charles Sheffield probated July 1775 .

Family

On 25 April 1741, Sheffield married Margaret Diana, daughter of General Joseph Sabine, sometime Governor of Ghent and Gibraltar. She died on 7 January 1762, in Buckingham House, St James's Park, which shortly afterwards was sold by her husband for £21,000 to King

. In today's money (2023) the property was sold for £5,523,960.36.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sheffield, Charles Herbert, 1st Baronet 1700s births 1774 deaths Year of birth uncertain 18th-century English people Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain Buckingham Palace

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