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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Dec. 29, 1814. Of Cambs. [3rd s. of Sir Charles, K.C.B., of Shelford, Cambs. (by his 1st wife, Louisa, dau. of the Rev. Castle Sherard (1751) of Huntingdon). B. May 12, 1797. School, Eton.] ' Matric. Michs. 1815; Scholar, 1815; B.A. (16th Wrangler; 2nd Chancellor's medal) 1819; M.A. 1822; B.D. 1830. Fellow, 1821-31. Senior Proctor, 1828-9. In Apr. 1829 he was mobbed by undergraduates who pursued him from the Senate House to the gates of St John's, hissing and groaning, and though some of the offenders were summoned before the Vice-Chancellor's Court, the Proctors were not satisfied and sent in their resignations. Adm. at the Inner Temple, Feb. 5, 1819. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) Mar. 11, 1827; priest (Ely) June 10, 1827. Chaplain of Horningsey, Cambs., 1829-30. V. of Sunninghill, Berks., 1830-84. Succeeded to his father's estate at Shelford, 1845, but sold it to his brother, 1850. Married, Jan. 1, 1835, Caroline, dau. of Antoine Ardrighetti, of Prato, Savoy, France, and had issue. Died May 26, 1884. Brother of Thomas S. (1813); half-brother of the next and Henry J. (1857). (Eton Sch. Lists; Eagle, XIII. 146; Burke, L.G.; Inns of Court; The Guardian, June 4, 1884; Winstanley, Early Victorian Cambridge, 374.)