Sir Robert Sheffield, 5th Baronet
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Sir Robert Sheffield, 5th Baronet (1823–1886) was a Royal Horse Guards officer, landowner, and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire.
Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford,[1] in 1842 he purchased a commission as a cornet in the Royal Horse Guards.[2] He was promoted, also by purchase, to lieutenant in 1845[3] and to captain in 1849.[4] In 1861 he was granted brevet rank as a major,[5] and he retired from the army later that year.[6] On 7 November 1862 he inherited the Sheffield baronetcy and the Normanby Hall estate in Lincolnshire and became a Justice of the Peace.[1] Sheffield was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire in 1852[7] and High Sheriff of the county in 1872.[8]
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, and they had one son and three daughters.[1]
- Gwendoline Sophia Alice (1869–1921), who married Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale, whose daughter Lady Marjorie Lowther married George Rodney, 8th Baron Rodney.[9]
- Helen (1872–1950)
- Sir Berkeley Digby George (1876–1946)
- Dorothy Marie Isolde (1878–1964)
Sheffield died in 1886.[1]