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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.<br />
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==Life==<br />
The son of Edward Sheil and Catherine McCarthy, and brother of [[Richard Lalor Sheil]], he was born at Bellevue House, near [[Waterford]], on 2 December 1803. Educated at [[Stonyhurst College]], he was nominated to an [[East India Company]] cadetship.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Sheil, Justin|volume=52}}</ref><br />
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On arriving in [[India]] Sheil was posted as ensign to the [[3rd Bengal infantry]] (4 March 1820). Exchanged to the [[35th Bengal infantry]], of which he became adjutant, he was present at the [[Siege of Bharatpur]]. Becoming a captain on 13 April 1830, he was on 4 July 1833 appointed second in command of regular troops in Persia under Major Pasmore; Pasmore had recommended him to [[Lord William Bentinck]] and praised him highly.<ref name="DNB"/><br />
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On 16 February 1836 Sheil was appointed secretary to the British legation in [[Persia]], and in 1844 he succeeded [[John McNeill (diplomat)|Sir John McNeill]] as envoy and minister at the [[Shah]]'s court. He held the post till his retirement in 1854. He was promoted to the rank of major on 17 February 1841, and became a major-general in 1859. In 1848 he was created a C.B., and in 1855 a K.C.B.<ref name="DNB"/><br />
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Sheil died in London on 18 April 1871. Curiously he chose not to be buried alongside his wife, who had died in Ireland two years earlier.<ref name="DNB"/><br />
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==Works==<br />
Sheil contributed notes on ''Koords, Turkomans, Nestorians, Khiva, ...'', to a book ''Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia'' (London, 1856),<ref name="Sheil1856">{{cite book|last=Woulfe |first=Lady Mary Leonora Sheil|title=Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia: With Notes on Russia, Koords, Toorkomans, Nestorians, Khiva, and Persia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ldY0l_rR-bcC|year=1856|publisher=J. Murray}}</ref> written by his wife. He published in vol. viii. of the ''Royal Geographical Society's Journal'' "Notes of a Journey from Kurdistan to Suleimaniyeh in 1836", and "Itinerary from Tehran to Alamut in May 1837".<ref name="DNB"/><br />
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==Family==<br />
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><br />
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