[1] He was born at New Eltham in south-east London and died at Chobham in Surrey.
[2] Sheffield was a professional right-arm in-swing fast-medium bowler and a useful right-handed lower-order batsman who had a briefly successful cricket career before he was forced to retire through back injury.
[3] He played for Surrey's second eleven in the Minor Counties competition from 1928 and made his first-class debut in 1930.
[4] He also showed occasional batting ability, including an unbeaten innings of 64 in the game against Essex.
[5] Injury meant that Sheffield's cricket career did not develop from this promising beginning: he played a few games in 1932 but was not re-engaged by Surrey at the end of the season, and in five matches for Kent in 1933 he took only 10 wickets, and did not return for the 1934 season.