Sir Robert Sheffield, 5th Baronet
Sir Robert Sheffield, 5th Baronet was a Royal Horse Guards officer, landowner, and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire.
Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, in 1842 he purchased a commission as a cornet in the Royal Horse Guards. He was promoted, also by purchase, to lieutenant in 1845 and to captain in 1849. In 1861 he was granted brevet rank as a major, and he retired from the army later that year. On 7 November 1862 he inherited the Sheffield baronetcy and the Normanby Hall estate in Lincolnshire and became a Justice of the Peace. Sheffield was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire in 1852 and High Sheriff of the county in 1872.
Sheffield married Priscilla Isabel Laura Dumaresq, a daughter of Colonel Henry Dumaresq and Lady Elizabeth Sophia Butler-Danvers, grand-daughter of Brinsley Butler, 2nd Earl of Lanesborough, and they had one son and three daughters.
- Gwendoline Sophia Alice, who married Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale, whose daughter Lady Marjorie Lowther married George Rodney, 8th Baron Rodney.
- Helen
- Sir Berkeley Digby George
- Dorothy Marie Isolde