Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave | |
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1st Earl of Mulgrave 3rd Baron Sheffield | |
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Born | December 7, 1564 |
Died | October 6, 1646 | (aged 81)
Resting place | St Paul's Church, Hammersmith |
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Parent(s) | John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield Douglas Howard |
Relatives | Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave (grandson) |
Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, 3rd Baron Sheffield, KG (7 December 1564 – 6 October 1646) was a British peer and Member of Parliament, who served as Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire from 1603 to 1619 and Vice-Admiral of Yorkshire from 1604 to 1646. He was created Earl of Mulgrave in 1626.
Early Life
[edit]Edmund Sheffield was born on 7 December 1564 to John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield and Douglas Howard.[1] His grandfather, Sir Edmund Sheffield, a second cousin of Henry VIII, was raised to the Peerage in 1547 as Baron Sheffield, of Butterwick, and in 1549 was murdered in the streets of Norwich during Kett's Rebellion.
Career
[edit]In 1588, Sheffield was made a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garterby Queen Elizabeth I for valiant services in the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) as a commander of a ship named "The Bear" as well a squadron of ships.[2] Sheffield later served in the Nine Years' War.[2]
Sheffield was made President of the North by King James VI and I, serving from 1603–1619.[2]
Personal Life
[edit]Sheffield married Ursula Tyrwhitt, by whom he had at least one daughter, Mary Sheffield.
In March 1619, Sheffield remarried Mariana Irwin (or Irvine). She was a daughter of his dancing master Sir William Irvine (or Urwin), a Scottish courtier who was a Gentleman Usher to Prince Henry and Charles I of England[3].
Death and legacy
[edit]Sheffield died on 6 October 1646[1]. He was buried in St Pauls, Hammersmith in a tomb of black and white marble 7 feet (2.1 m) long, 3 feet (0.91 m) high and 3 feet (0.91 m) over, defended with iron rails, where a monument to his memory was erected by his wife Mariana, Countess of Mulgrave.[2]
Sheffield was succeeded by his grandson, likely via his second wife Mariana Irwin, Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave.
Ancestry
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References
[edit]- ^ a b "SHEFFIELD FAMILY". tudorplace.com. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
- ^ a b c d Bowack, John (18 April 2018). The Antiquities of Middlesex; Being a Collection of the Several Church Monuments in That County: Also an Historical Account of Each Church and Parish (1st ed.). London: Gale Ecco. pp. 38–39. ISBN 9781379545057. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
- ^ Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, Court and Times of James the First, 2 (London: Colburn, 1849), pp. 145–46.
- Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .