Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet DL (born 9 May 1946) is a British

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and father of

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, who is the wife of a former British

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and Foreign Secretary,

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. He was educated at

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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 in 1969 with whom he had two daughters,

and Emily Sheffield. He married secondly Victoria Penelope Walker in 1977 with whom he had two daughters and one son. He served as a

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Councillor on

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from 1985 to 1993. He is the owner of Sutton Park, Yorkshire and a director of Normanby Estate Company Ltd. He is a member of

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, and the

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. In 2011, ''

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'' reported that Sheffield received about £350,000 annually from eight

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on his Normanby Hall estate.

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1946 births Living people People educated at Eton College Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain Deputy lieutenants of Lincolnshire Reginald Sheffield Members of Humberside County Council {{UK-baronet-stub