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{{short description|Irish diplomat and soldier}} | {{short description|Irish diplomat and soldier}} | ||
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Major-General '''Sir Justin Sheil''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}} (2 December 1803 – 18 April 1871) was an Irish army officer and diplomat, the British envoy in [[Persia]] from 1844 to 1854. | Major-General '''Sir Justin Sheil''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}} (2 December 1803 – 18 April 1871) was an Irish army officer and diplomat, the British envoy in [[Persia]] from 1844 to 1854. | ||
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==Family== | ==Family== | ||
Sheil married the writer Mary Leonora Woulfe, daughter of [[Stephen Woulfe]], [[Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer]] and Frances Hamill. She died in 1869: she is buried in [[Glasnevin Cemetery]], far from her husband. They had ten children, including the politician [[Edward Sheil]], Mary Emily (died 1888), who married her cousin, the leading journalist John Woulfe Flanagan, and Laura, who married the Spanish diplomat Pedro de Zulueta and was the mother of [[Francis de Zulueta]], [[Regius Professor of Civil Law (Oxford)]] at the [[University of Oxford|Regius Professor of Law]].<ref name="DNB"/><ref>{{cite ODNB|id=25300|first2=James|last2=Lunt|title=Sheil, Sir Justin|last1=Wheeler|first1= S.|date= 3 January | Sheil married the writer Mary Leonora Woulfe, daughter of [[Stephen Woulfe]], [[Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer]] and Frances Hamill. She died in 1869: she is buried in [[Glasnevin Cemetery]], far from her husband. They had ten children, including the politician [[Edward Sheil]], Mary Emily (died 1888), who married her cousin, the leading journalist John Woulfe Flanagan, and Laura, who married the Spanish diplomat Pedro de Zulueta and was the mother of [[Francis de Zulueta]], [[Regius Professor of Civil Law (Oxford)]] at the [[University of Oxford|Regius Professor of Law]].<ref name="DNB"/><ref>{{cite ODNB|id=25300|first2=James|last2=Lunt|title=Sheil, Sir Justin|last1=Wheeler|first1= S.|date= 3 January 2008}}</ref> | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||