Michael Hugh Tempest Sheringham FBA (1948 – 21 January 2016) was Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford from 2004 until his retirement in 2015.
His father, John Guy Tempest Sheringham was a civil servant, and his mother, Yvette Agnès (née Habib) was a journalist and poet.
The family returned to UK in the early 1950, and settled near Reading, where Sheringham attended Wallingford County Grammar School.
[1] On 20 September 1974, Sheringham married Priscilla Monique (Cilla) Duhamel, whom he had met at the University of Kent, and they had two children together.
[3] Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford from 2004 until his retirement in 2015.