Colonel Sheldon Cradock (27 September 1777 – 19 February 1852) was an English landowner and Whig politician.

In 1730, his great-grandfather, William Cradock, had acquired the Hartforth estate (three miles from Richmond), and through his parents' marriage, they gained more Yorkshire property at Thorpe.

[2] In June 1822 he was returned on a vacancy alongside Mark Milbank for Camelford by his Durham neighbour, Lord Darlington (later the 1st Duke of Cleveland), after a contest.

In his will, he left property at Marske to a "single woman", Jane Wilson, with remainder to his six daughters with her.

[5] Through his daughter Margaret, he was a grandfather of Helen Cowley Brow, who married Charles Sadleir Musgrave Trench (son of Hon.