John Sheffield biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of John Sheffield

Author Name:

John Sheffield

Born As:

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, KG, PC

Other Names:

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, KG, PC

Born:

7 Apr 1648

Died:

24 Feb 1721




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Politician and poet                          
                          
He had an illegitimate son with his mistress Frances Stewart:
Sir Charles Herbert Sheffield, 1st Baronet

First wife,Ursula Stawell, 
He had an illegitimate daughter:
Mary Sheffield 

Second wife, Catherine Greville

Third wife Lady Catherine Darnley, an illegitimate daughter of James II of Great Britain and Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester - three children

John Sheffield
Robert Sheffield
Edmund Sheffield                          
                          
Politician and poet, was the son of Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave, and succeeded to that title on his father’s death in 1658.