Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet

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Sutton Park - the Sheffield family seat

Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet DL (born 9 May 1946) is a British Baronet and father of Samantha Cameron, who is the wife of former British Prime Minister David Cameron.

He was educated at Eton College.[citation needed] The son of Edmund Sheffield and Nancy Soames, he succeeded to the baronetcy upon the death of his uncle Sir Robert Sheffield, 7th Baronet in 1977.[1]

He married Annabel Jones in 1969 with whom he had two daughters, Samantha Cameron and Emily Sheffield. He married secondly Victoria Penelope Walker in 1977 with whom he had two daughters and one son.

He served as a Conservative Councillor on Humberside County Council from 1985 to 1993. He is the owner of Sutton Park, Yorkshire and a director of Normanby Estate Company Ltd.

He is a member of White's, Pratt's, and the Beefsteak Club.

In 2011 Sir Reginald said that he earned as much as £350,000 a year from eight wind turbines located on his estate at Bagmoor near Normanby Hall in Lincolnshire.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ ‘SHEFFIELD, Sir Reginald (Adrian Berkeley)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
  2. ^ "The aristocrats cashing in on Britain's wind farm subsidies - Telegraph". Telegraph.co.uk. 21 August 2011. Archived from the original on 28 August 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Baronet
(of Normanby in the County of Lincoln)
1977–present
Incumbent


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