Sir Robert Sheffield, 5th Baronet (1823–1886) was a

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officer, landowner, and

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. Educated at

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and

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, in 1842 he

purchased a commission Between the 17th and 19th centuries, officer's commissions in infantry and cavalry units of the English and British armies could be purchased. This avoided the need to wait to be promoted for merit or seniority, and was the usual way to obta ...

as a cornet in the Royal Horse Guards. He was promoted, also by purchase, to lieutenant in 1845 and to captain in 1849. In 1861 he was granted

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as a major, and he retired from the army later that year. On 7 November 1862 he inherited the Sheffield baronetcy and the

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estate in

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and became a Justice of the Peace.''

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'', volume 2 (2003), page 3190 Sheffield was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire in 1852 and High Sheriff of the county in 1872. Sheffield married Priscilla Isabel Laura Dumaresq, a daughter of Colonel Henry Dumaresq and Lady Elizabeth Sophia Butler-Danvers, grand-daughter of

Brinsley Butler, 2nd Earl of Lanesborough Brinsley Butler, 2nd Earl of Lanesborough, PC (Ire) (4 March 1728 – 24 January 1779), styled The Honourable until 1756 and Lord Newtown-Butler from 1756 to 1768, was an Irish politician and peer. He was the son of Humphrey Butler, 1st ...

, and they had one son and three daughters. *Gwendoline Sophia Alice (1869–1921), who married

Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale Lancelot Edward Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale, Order of the British Empire, OBE, Deputy Lieutenant, DL (25 June 1867 – 11 March 1953) was an English peer, the fourth and youngest son of Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale. Biography Lowther wa ...

, whose daughter Lady Marjorie Lowther married

George Rodney, 8th Baron Rodney George Bridges Harley Guest Rodney, 8th Baron Rodney of Rodney Stoke (2 November 1891 – 18 December 1973) was a British soldier and peer, a member of the House of Lords for more than sixty years, from 1912 until his death, but rarely appeared th ...

.''Burke's Peerage'', volume 3 (2003), page 3381 *Helen (1872–1950) *Sir Berkeley Digby George (1876–1946) *Dorothy Marie Isolde (1878–1964) Sheffield died in 1886.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sheffield, Robert 1823 births 1886 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain Royal Horse Guards officers Deputy lieutenants of Lincolnshire High sheriffs of Lincolnshire People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford