by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Shiffner… (1823)
“ Agents.– Messrs. Maude and Co. ↑ Sir George Shiffner is the son of the late Henry Shiffner, of Pontrylass, co. Hereford, Esq. formerly in parliament for Minehead, by Mary, daughter and co-heiress of John Jackson, Esq. appointed Governor-General of Bengal in 1748, whose wife was niece to John Lord Bellenden. ↑ See Vol. II. Part I. p. 121. ”
