George Archer-Shee for the play "The Winslow Boy" by Terence Rattigan which has twice been the basis of films. He was the son of Martin Archer-Shee and his second wife Helen Treloar. His father was a banker and grandson of the painter Sir Martin Archer Shee. His half-brother was Martin Archer-Shee. The actor Robert Bathurst is his great nephew. In January 1908 Archer-Shee became a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. The college, which was part of the estate of the late Queen Victoria, educated and trained 14- to 16-year-olds in their first
William Shee attended Edinburgh University where he joined The Speculative Society. In 1823 he became a pupil of Thomas Chitty at Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar in 1828. Shee enjoyed a successful career as a barrister, being made serjeant-at-law in 1840, receiving a patent of precedence in 1845, and being appointed queen's serjeant in 1857. In 1837, he married Mary Gordon (died 1861) and their children included George Darell Shee and Henry Gordon Shee QC who became Recorder of Burnley and a judge in Salford. Shee's famous cases as an advocate included the Roupell case and leading the unsuccessful