Berkeley Sheffield
Background
He was born in London, the son of
During the
Sheffield was a director of Great Central Railway from 1908 until it was combined with the London and North Eastern Railway 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.[4]
He lived at 8
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 1922, 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.[3]
References
- ISBN 1-85182-241-0.
- ^ "Anna Mathilde van Limburg Stirum (b. 24 July 1854, d. 14 May 1932) - Person Page 63259". thepeerage.com.
- ^ a b c Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees, Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume III: 1919-1945, Harvester Press 1979, p. 325.
- ^ a b "Sir Berkeley Digby George Sheffield, 6th Bt". The Peerage. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ WO 374/61841 held in the National Archives, Kew. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C731962