{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{infobox officeholder | name = Sir Alfred Jodrell, Bt | office = High Sheriff of Norfolk | term_start = 1887 | term_end = 1887 | predecessor = William Morris | successor = Michael Stocks | birth_date = {{birth date|1847|08|13|df=yes}} | birth_place = Horham Hall, Thaxted | death_date = {{death date and age|1929|03|15|1847|08|13|df=yes}} | death_place = | parents = Edward Jodrell<br>Adela Moncton Bowyer-Smijth | spouse = {{marriage|Lady Jane Grimston<br>|25 February 1897|1920|reason=died}} | children = | relations = Sir Edward Bowyer-Smijth, 10th Baronet (grandfather) }} '''Sir Alfred Jodrell, 4th Baronet''' (13 August 1847 – 15 March 1929) was the fourth and last of the Jodrell Baronets, assuming the title in 1882.<ref>'JODRELL, Sir Alfred', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U211974, accessed 13 May 2017]</ref>
==Early life== Jodrell was born on 13 August 1847 at Horham Hall, Thaxted. He was the son of Edward Jodrell, a Captain in the 16th Regiment, and Adela Moncton Bowyer-Smijth (1823–1896).<ref name="Mosley2003">Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.'' Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 462.</ref>
His paternal grandfather was Edward Jodrell (brother of Sir Richard Paul Jodrell, 2nd Baronet and Henry Jodrell, MP for Great Yarmouth and Bramber, all sons of classical scholar and playwright Richard Paul Jodrell) and the former Mary Lowndes-Stone. His grandfather Edward inherited Bayfield Hall from his brother, Henry. His maternal grandparents were Sir Edward Bowyer-Smijth, 10th Baronet, and the former Laetitia Cecily Weyland, the youngest daughter of John Weyland.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
==Career== He founded The Shell Museum<ref name=JODRELL>{{cite book|title=Sir Alfred Jodrell|last1=Stone|first1=Peter|last2=Warwick James|first2=Jenefer|publisher=Larks Press – Dereham|date=1996|isbn=0948400447|page=10|work=reference to his hobbies and the building of the shell museum at Glandford}}</ref> in Glandford, near his Norfolk home at Bayfield Hall, to house his collection accumulated over six decades.<ref name=glaven>{{cite web| title =Glandford Shell Museum (Glandford)| url =http://www.glavenvalley.co.uk/246/| publisher =Glaven Valley| accessdate =7 October 2011| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20101218135845/http://glavenvalley.co.uk/246/| archive-date =18 December 2010| url-status =dead}}</ref><ref name = kelly>{{cite web | title= Norfolk – Bayfield | work= Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk |date= 1883 |page= 242| url=http://apling.freeservers.com/Villages/Bayfield.htm | accessdate=7 October 2011}}</ref> He was a noted public benefactor, restoring old churches,<ref>''Sir Alfred Jodrell.'' The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 19 Mar 1929; p. 21; Issue 45155</ref> such as St Nicholas, Blakeney, sending provisions to the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital, and rebuilding and administering his estates and other local buildings, such as the watermill.<ref name = mill>{{cite web| title= Glandford Mill | work=Norfolk mills | url= http://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Watermills/glandford.html| accessdate= 7 October 2011}}</ref><ref name=gvb1>{{cite web|title=St Martin's, Glandford: incumbents |url=http://www.northnorfolkcentral.co.uk/GlavenValley/Glandford/history/rectors.html |publisher=The Glaven Valley Benefice |accessdate=23 September 2011 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206121643/http://www.northnorfolkcentral.co.uk/GlavenValley/Glandford/history/rectors.html |archivedate=6 February 2012 }}</ref> He was High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1887.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25680|page=1222|date=8 March 1887}}</ref>
==Personal life== On 25 February 1897, Jodrell married Lady Jane Grimston (1848–1920), daughter of James Grimston, 2nd Earl of Verulam, and the former Elizabeth Joanna Weyland (daughter of Richard Weyland). They resided at Bayfield Hall, Norfolk.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
Sir Alfred died on 15 March 1929 upon which the title became extinct.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
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