James Sheffield, Baron Sheffield
James Sheffield, Baron Sheffield(" fl." 1640) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England in 1640.
He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.
Sheffield was the son of Edmund Sheffield and his wife Mariana Irwin.
When his father became Earl of Mulgrave, he received the courtesy title Baron Sheffield.
He died before his father and the title went to his nephew, Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave.
In April 1640, Sheffield was elected Member of Parliament for St Mawes in the Short Parliament.
In 1642 he was a captain in the parliamentarian army of the Earl of Essex, and in 1645 a Colonel in the New Model Army.
James Somerville, 2nd Baron Athlumney
James Herbert Gustavus Meredyth Somerville, 2nd Baron Athlumney, 2nd Baron Meredyth( 23 March 1865 – 8 January 1929) was an Irish peer and officer of the British Army.
Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave
Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave( December 161124 August 1658) was an English peer who supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War period.
His father was Sir John Sheffield( drowned in 1614), heir to Lord Sheffield, and his mother was Grizel Anderson, daughter of Sir Edmund Anderson, chief justice of common pleas.
As grandson of the First Earl, Mulgrave succeeded to his title in October 1646, and also succeeded his grandfather as Vice- Admiral of Yorkshire.
He sat in the House of Lords until its abolition, and was a member of the Council of State during the Commonwealth.
In 1658 he was nominated as a member of Cromwell's Upper House, butlike most of the other peers summoneddeclined to serve.
He died later the same year.
Mulgrave married Elizabeth Cranfield, daughter of the Earl of Middlesex.
Their son, John, who succeeded to the earldom, was later created Marquess of Normanby and Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, and was Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council during the reign of Queen Anne.
Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Normanby( 11 January 1716 – 30 October 1735) was an English nobleman, styled Marquess of Normanby from 1716 to 1721.
The legitimate son of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, he succeeded his father in 1721.
He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford in 1732 and died of consumption in Rome in 1735.
As he never married and left no issue, the dukedom became extinct upon his death.
The family estates, including Normanby Park, devolved upon his illegitimate half brother Charles Herbert Sheffield.
Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, 3rd Baron Sheffield, KG( c. 1564 – 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.
He was the son of John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield and Douglas Howard, and the grandson of Sir Edmund Sheffield.
His grandfather, 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.
He married, firstly, Ursula Tyrwhitt, by whom he had at least one daughter, Mary Sheffield and, secondly, Mariana Irwin.
He was succeeded by his grandson, likely via his second wife Mariana Irwin, Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave.
Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield
Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield, of Butterwick (22 November 1521 – 19 July 1549) was an English nobleman, the son of Sir Robert Sheffield (
died 15 November 1531, son of Robert Sheffield and Helen Delves) and his second wife Jane Stanley, daughter of George Stanley, 9th Baron Strange and Joan le Strange, 9th Baroness Strange.
Through his mother, he was a second cousin once removed of the reigning English monarch, King Henry VIII.
Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley
Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley and 3rd Baron Eddisbury PC( 16 May 1839 – 18 March 1925) was an English peer.
John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield
John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield, of Butterwick (c. 1538 – 10 December 1568) was the first son of Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield, and Lady Anne de Vere.
He married Douglas Howard, daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, and Margaret Gamage.
They had two children:
John Sheffield (athlete)
Major General John Sheffield( 28 April 1910 – 30 July 1987) was a British army officer and hurdler.
He competed in the men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
William Campbell, 2nd Baron Stratheden and Campbell
William Frederick Campbell, 2nd Baron Stratheden, 2nd Baron Campbell( 15 October 1824 – 21 January 1893), was a British peer and Liberal politician.
His father was the Lord Chancellor.

Question: Which country John Sheffield, 2Nd Baron Sheffield's father is from?
Answer: English