James Allen Shuffrey
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James Allen Shuffrey (1858–1939) was a British Victorian and Edwardian watercolour artist particularly associated with Oxford and Oxfordshire.[1]
James Allen Shuffrey was born in 1859 in Wood Green, Witney, Oxfordshire, into an old Wood Green family of blanket weavers and tanners of Huguenot origin who had lived at 7 Narrow Hill since the early eighteenth century. His parents were Samuel Shuffrey (1810-1889) and Sarah Shuffrey, nee Baylis (1819-1875). Shuffrey was one of seven children, and was the younger brother of the leading architect and architectural designer Leonard Shuffrey, whose son, Paul Shuffrey became a distinguished colonial administrator and editor.[2] Their cousin, William Shuffrey (1851-1932), became Vicar of Arncliffe and Honorary Canon of Ripon Cathedral.[3]
As a child, Shuffrey sang in the Choir of Holy Trinity Church, Wood Green.[1] Shuffrey married twice and had three children by his first wife, Reginald, Barbara and Dora.[4] Reginald became an artist, particularly well known for his illustrations of transport subjects.[5] James Allen Shuffrey's youngest grandson was the artist David Lublinski.[6]