Michael Shersby

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Sir Michael Shersby (17 February 1933 – 8 May 1997) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Uxbridge.

Shersby was born to Bill and Nora Shersby in his later constituency in Court Road, Ickenham. Christened Julian Michael, he was known primarily as Michael by the age of ten. He had an older brother Dick, an older sister Marjorie, and a younger brother Brian. Shersby's father Bill was employed for many years by the Port of London Authority, as an administration manager.

Shersby's parents were very keen for all of their four children to be academically successful. Accordingly, Michael Shersby first attended the local Bisopshalt state school and was sent by his parents to John Lyon school in Harrow for his secondary school education. However, for a variety of reasons, Shersby decided that staying in the world of academia and going on to University was not for him, so in 1949 he started his working career in a humble clerical position at a company in London. Shersby continued to live with his family in Ichenham until 1958, when, at the age of 25, he married Barbara Barrow from West Drayton (also part the Uxbridge constituency), and they moved to London.

Shersby was first elected to Parliament at a 1972 by-election that followed the death of Charles Curran, who had been re-elected as MP for the constituency in the 1970 general election. After many years in Parliament, he died from a sudden and completely unexpected heart attack, only seven days after being re-elected to Parliament in the 1997 general election. The following by-election was won by local department store owner John Randall.