Born at Aldborough, Norfolk on 12 July 1843, he was the third and eldest surviving son in the family of twelve children of Robert Shuckburgh, rector of the parish, by his wife Elizabeth (died 1876), daughter of Dr. Lyford of Winchester.
He died suddenly on 10 July 1906, in the train between Berwick and Edinburgh, while on his way to examine at St. Leonard's School, St. Andrews, and was buried at Grantchester, where for some years he had lived.
Joseph Pullen, formerly fellow and tutor of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Gresham professor of astronomy.
[1] Immediately after his degree, Shuckburgh published anonymously translations of classical works, intended for university examinations.
Sir Richard Jebb asked him adapt his edition of Sophocles for use in schools; however, he lived only to publish the Œdipus Coloneus, Antigone, and Philoctetes.
In 1901 Shuckburgh produced for the University Press A Short History of the Greeks from the Earliest Times to BC 146, and in 1905, for the Story of the Nations series, Greece from the Coming of the Hellenes to AD 14.