Sir Berkeley Digby George Sheffield, 6th Baronet, DL (19 January 1876 – 26 November 1946) was a British Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party.

Background

Sarah Purser Berkeley and Dorothy Sheffield 1885

He was born in London, the son of

Sir Robert Sheffield, 5th Baronet The Sheffield Baronetcy, of Normanby in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 1 March 1755 for Charles Herbert Sheffield, the illegitimate son of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Norman ...

, of Normanby Hall, whom he succeeded as Baronet in 1886. Sheffield was educated at Eton College and in France and Germany. He served with the Lincolnshire Regiment and in the Yeomanry, with the Diplomatic Service and in the

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. On 19 July 1904 he married Dutch Baroness Julie Marie (Julia Mary) de Tuyll van Serooskerken, born at The Hague, daughter of Baron Reginald de Tuyll van Serooskerken and wife Countess Anna Mathilda van Limburg-Stirum (alleged illegitimate daughter of William III of the Netherlands); Lady Sheffield was an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and a Lady of Grace of the

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.Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees, ''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume III: 1919-1945'', Harvester Press 1979, p. 325. They had one daughter and four sons, including George Berkeley Sheffield. During the First World War he served as a Captain in the

Lincolnshire Yeomanry The Lincolnshire Yeomanry was a volunteer cavalry unit of the British Army formed in 1794. It saw action in the Second Boer War and the First World War before being disbanded in 1920. History Formation and early history In 1793, the prime ministe ...

.WO 374/61841 held in the National Archives, Kew. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C731962 Sheffield was a director of Great Central Railway from 1908 until it was combined with the

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in 1923. Postwar, he was member of Parliament for Brigg between 1922 and 1929. He was a Justice of the Peace in Lincolnshire. He was Mayor of Scunthorpe in 1936 and he was Deputy Lieutenant of Lincolnshire. He lived at 8 South Audley Street in London, and was a member of the Turf Club, the

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, the Orleans Club and the

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. Sheffield is one of the great-great-grandfathers of Cara Delevingne and is great-grandfather of Samantha Cameron.

Political career

Sheffield was a member of Lindsey County Council from 1902 to 1906 and an alderman from 1908 to 1915. He was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1905. In February 1907 he was elected to Parliament for the Brigg division of Lincolnshire; he was defeated at the February 1910 election. Re-elected for Brigg in

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, he sat until defeated in May 1929. When Scunthorpe was granted its charter as a municipal borough in 1936, Sheffield was the borough's first mayor.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sheffield, Berkeley 1876 births 1946 deaths People educated at Eton College Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain Deputy Lieutenants of Lincolnshire High Sheriffs of Lincolnshire Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 Royal Lincolnshire Regiment officers Berkeley Sheffield Members of Lindsey County Council