COMITER SED FORTITER
- Born on January 19, 1876
- Deceased on November 26, 1946, at the age of 70 years
Parents
- Robert Sheffield (1823 - c. 1886), Baronet Sheffield of Normanby Hall, high Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1872, justice of the peace
- Priscilla Dumaresq (1836 - 1900)
Family
- Married on January 18, 1904 in The Hague, with Julie Marie van Tuyll van Serooskerken (1883 - 1952), issuing
- Reginald (1908 - 1977)
- John Vincent (1913 - 2008)
Occupations
- Member of Parliament for Brigg (1907 - 1910, 1922 - 1929)
- deputy lieutenant of Lincolnshire
- mayor of Scunthorpe in 1936
- director of Great Central Railway (1908 - 1923)
- member of Lindsey County Council (1902 - 1906)
- high Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1905
- captain in the Lincolnshire Yeomanry