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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]

References

1. Return of the name of every member of the lower house of parliament of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with name of constituency represented, and date of return, from 1213 to 1874. 2 pt. [and] index. Parliament. 1878. p. 480. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
2. Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
3. Stuart Asquith New Model Army 1645-60

Parliament of England
Preceded by Parliament suspended since 1629	Member of Parliament for St Mawes 1640 With: George Parry	Succeeded by George Parry Richard Erisey