Martin Archer-Shee Martin Archer-Shee Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Martin Archer-Shee, DSO (5 May 1873 – 6 January 1935) was a British army officer and Conservative Party politician. He was the son of Martin Archer-Shee and his wife Elizabeth Edith Dennistoun "née" Pell of New York who married in 1872 at Piccadilly. His father was a bank manager. He was the great grandson of the painter Martin Archer Shee. His half-brother was George Archer-Shee, whose notable acquittal of the accusation of theft became the basis of the play "The Winslow Boy" by Terrence Rattigan. Archer-Shee was educated at The Oratory School before entering the Royal
Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronet Barrett of Denton. He died without heir on 25 January 1870 in London. His maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Crisp, born Marsh, is the central character in Linda Colley's book, "The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh". Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronet Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronet (14 June 1785, Calcutta – 25 January 1870, London) was an Irish diplomat. George Shee was the eldest son of Sir George Shee, 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Maria Crisp. He was educated at Sandy Mount, near Dublin, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1806 and M.A. in 1811. He was admitted to Gray's