page_title: Walter Sneyd
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Walter Sneyd / Early life
context_page_description: Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Sneyd, of Keele Hall was an English politician who served in the Parliament of Great Britain and as High Sheriff of Staffordshire.
context_section_description: Sneyd was born on 11 February 1752 in an old Staffordshire parliamentary family. He was a son of the former Barbara Bagot and Ralph Sneyd of Keele Hall, Staffordshire. His younger brother, the Rev. Ralph Sneyd married Penelope Moore (a daughter of the Hon. Sir John Moore and granddaughter of Henry, Earl of Drogheda)
  His paternal grandfather was Ralph Sneyd, MP for Staffordshire. His maternal grandfather was Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet and Lady Barbara Legge (daughter of William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth).
  He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, 1769.
caption: Keele Hall, 1879
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