Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave

Parent(s)John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield
Douglas HowardRelativesEdmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave (grandson)

Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, 3rd Baron Sheffield, KG (7 December 1564 – 6 October 1646^[1]) 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.

Family

He married, firstly, Ursula Tyrwhitt, by whom he had at least one daughter, Mary Sheffield and, secondly, in March 1619, Mariana Irwin or Irvine. She was a daughter of Sir William Irvine (or Urwin), a Scottish courtier who was a Gentleman Usher to Prince Henry and Charles I of England. He was described as their dancing master.^[2]

He was succeeded by his grandson, likely via his second wife Mariana Irwin, Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave.

Ancestry

References

• "Sheffield, Edmund (1564?-1646)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Political offices
Preceded by The Lord Burghley	Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire President of the Council of the North 1603–1619	Succeeded by The Lord Scrope of Bolton
Preceded by Sir John Stanhope	Vice-Admiral of Yorkshire 1604–1646	Succeeded by The Earl of Mulgrave
Peerage of England
New creation	Earl of Mulgrave 1626–1646	Succeeded by Edmund Sheffield
Preceded by John Sheffield	Baron Sheffield 1568–1646