12 Facts About Harry Shelvoke

Harry Shelvoke was one of the founding members of the British coachbuilding and engineering company Shelvoke and Drewry.

Harry Shelvoke was one of the last members to bear a family name that is documented to have become extinct in modern times.

Harry Shelvoke was born in Aston, Birmingham, and lived in Handsworth for about 30 years.

Accountancy firm Shelvoke Pickering and Janney was established in Birmingham by Charles Hamilton Shelvoke, Harry's nephew, in about 1930.

Harry Shelvoke's home in Pixmore Way, Letchworth, was a mock-Tudor house built for him, named Melverley, where he lived until his death, surrounded by armour and swords.

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Mr Harry Shelvoke apparently drove the ex-Prince of Wales' Daimler Double Six motor car.

Harry Shelvoke expected high standards from his employees, but many remained loyal to the company over many years.

Harry Shelvoke usurped the coat of arms of the Thornes family of Shelvock and Melverley in Shropshire.

Harry Shelvoke is descended from those associated with Shelvock Manor in Shropshire and families bearing the name of Shelvock.

Historical records show that the spelling variant of Shelvoke is first recorded in 1722 at Eccleshall in Staffordshire, NW of Stafford, before recurring in the 19th-century industrialised West Midlands towns of Wolverhampton and Willenhall, probable ancestors of Harry.

Harry Shelvoke had a second cousin named Harry Clifford Shelvoke, who became a part of two families that settled in the Croydon area, south of London, in the early 20th century.

Mrs Edythe Diana Harry Shelvoke, born in 1920, died in 2019.