{{Short description|English clergyman}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} The Venerable '''John William Sheringham''' (20 February 1820 - 6 February 1904) was an English clergyman.
Born in Hanwell, Sheringham was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.<ref>Venn, John & Venn, John Archibald. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Cambridge University Press Part II vol. v p494</ref> After a curacy at St Barnabas, Kensington, he was Vicar of Strood, Kent, from 1848 to 1864 and of Standish with Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, from 1864 to 1889.<ref>Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p1226: London, Horace Cox, 1898</ref>
In 1881 he was appointed Archdeacon of Gloucester, a position he held until his retirement in 1902.<ref>[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/622e0001-240c-4258-b899-b7c20c9056b5 National Archives]</ref><ref>'SHERINGHAM, Ven. John William', 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/U190892, accessed 29 Jan 2017]</ref>
Sheringham died in Gloucester in 1904. He was the father-in-law of the civil servant Sir Edward Wingfield.
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