Sir Charles Herbert Sheffield, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Herbert Sheffield, 1st Baronet of Normanby, Lincolnshire, England, was an illegitimate son of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby and the first of the Sheffield baronets, and the owner of Buckingham Palace who sold it to King George III.
Biography
Sheffield, baptised Charles Herbert, was illegitimate son of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, and Frances Stewart, who, then or afterwards, was the wife of The Hon. Oliver Lambart, younger son of Charles Lambart, 3rd Earl of Cavan.
Sheffield was probably born about 1706, the considerable estates of both of these Dukes, in Lincolnshire and elsewhere. He was created a baronet on 1 March 1755. He died 5 September 1774.Family
On 25 April 1741, Sheffield married Margaret Diana, daughter of General Joseph Sabine, sometime Governor of Ghent and Gibraltar. She died 7 January 1762, in Buckingham House, St James's Park, which shortly afterwards was sold by her husband for £21,000 to King George III.
