Pamela Sharples, Baroness Sharples

Sharples in 2012.

Pamela Sharples, Baroness Sharples (born 11 February 1923 née Newall) is a British Conservative Party politician. She was elevated to the peerage after the assassination of her husband, Sir Richard Sharples, Governor of Bermuda.

She was educated at Southover Manor School in Lewes, East Sussex.[1]

She married the then Major Sharples in 1946. They had two sons and two daughters.[1] She supported his career as a Member of Parliament. She accompanied him to Bermuda in 1972 when he was appointed governor.

Sir Richard was shot on 10 March 1973 at the governor's mansion in Pembroke, Bermuda by Erskine Burrows along with his aide-de-camp and his Great Dane. The family left Bermuda and did not return for many years, although they did later return and purchased a house.

Lady Sharples was created a life peer on 18 June 1973 as Baroness Sharples, of Chawton in the County of Hampshire.[2]

She married twice more: Patrick D. de Laszlo in 1977 (died 1980); then Robert Douglas Swan in 1983 (died 1995).

Arms

Arms of Pamela Sharples, Baroness Sharples
Escutcheon
Argent a Chevron Vert between in chief two Copper Beech Trees eradicated and in base a White Tailed Tropicbird (phaethon lepturus) volant proper (for Sharples) on an Escutcheon of Pretence the Arms of Newall per saltire Argent and Gules a Crozier in fess Or between three Bustards wings elevated and addorsed counterchanged
Supporters
On either side a Great Dane Dog resting the interior hind foot proper on a Portcullis Or

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 'Sharples, Baroness', in Who's Who 2009 (London: A. & C. Black, 2008)
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 46010. p. 7447. 21 June 1973.