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Sheppey may refer to:
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Isle of Sheppey, on the north Kent coast
- Municipal Borough of Queenborough-in-Sheppey
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey (UK Parliament constituency)
- Sheppey Crossing
- Sheppey Light Railway
- A.F.C. Sheppey
- River Sheppey, in Somerset
- Sheppey Corner, in Gloucestershire
- John Sheppey (1300–1360), English administrator and bishop
- Sheppey (play)
- Sheppey, a humorous unit of measure
Sheppey (1933) was William Somerset Maugham's last play, written at the age of 59 and after he had reached distinction as a novelist and playwright. Maugham dedicated the book to Sir John Gielgud.
It is the story about the change of fortune of hairdresser Joseph Miller who was born on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent and nicknamed Sheppey. The play is set in the 1930s. Sheppey, a hard worker at the same establishment for 15 years, wins a subsidiary prize in the Irish Lottery of £8,500 but does not take to his win with the same style that most others would – and to which most, including his boss, his wife or his daughter and her fiancé (a teacher given to believing that he is more educated than most) — expect him to.
The play was written in 1932 and first produced at the Wyndham's Theatre London on 14 September 1933 with a cast that included Ralph Richardson, then aged 31, and Laura Cowie who had been a star of the silent movies.
After the production of Sheppey, Maugham announced publicly that he would write no more plays and kept to his word until his death in 1965. He did however write numerous other short stories, novels, articles and other items.
Usage examples of "sheppey".
Isle of Sheppey, on which Sheerness stood, was a place reckoned by most naval officers to be damned dull.
If the men looked for respite as they sailed down the north shore of the Isle of Sheppey, past all those settled and silent ships of the line, they were disappointed.
And out towards the sea, a long, low grey horizon, isles like Grain and Sheppey, more mud and a choppy vista of grey-brown water, its surface massed with coasting boats and fishermen, dotted with bigger ships anchored or snugged down to wait the tide and possibly a fairer wind.
The first was spotted by two young men out walking near Queensborough, Isle of Sheppey, and the police kept guard over it until a helicopter from Mansion whisked it away.
Richard Cromwell had sent gallopers off for both the royal camp and the fleet headquarters base on the Isle of Sheppey with news of the fantastic victory of cavalry over ships, and by the time he, his charge, and their respective retinues had made the long, muddy journey ahorse, the three newest royal prizes were already riding at anchor in the waters of the Thames, just downstream of the siege lines.
Richard Cromwell had sent gallopers off for both the royal camp and the fleet headquarters base on the Isle of Sheppey with news of the fantastic victory of cavalry over ships, and by the time he, his charge, and their respective retinues had made the long, muddy journey ahorse, the three newest royal prizes were already riding at anchor in the waters of the Thames, just downstream of the siegelines.
Thanet and Sheppey in the Thames, which served as winter quarters in the year 850 during the great Danish invasion of England.
Beyond it and Sheppey Island lay the Thames Estuary and the North Sea.
It long held lands in the isle of Sheppey, as well as the advowson of the church of Eastchurch, in the same island.
Sir Robert de Shurland, Lord of the Isle of Sheppey, and of many a fair manor on the mainland, was a man of worship.
Robert de Shurland, Lord of Shurland and Minster, Baron of Sheppey in comitatukent, was, as has been before hinted, a very great man.
Malthouse, the tapster, was arguing to Dame Martin that a murder now and then was a seasonable check to population, without which the Isle of Sheppey would in time be devoured, like a mouldy cheese, by inhabitants of its own producing.
Robert de Shurland, Knight, Baron of Shurland and Minster, and lord of Sheppey, and know all men, by these presents, that I do hereby attach roll, the said Robert, of murder and sacrilege, new, or of late, done and committed by you, the said Robert, contrary to the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown and dignity: and I do hereby require and charge you, the said Robert, to forthwith surrender and give up your own proper person, together with the castle of Shurland aforesaid, in order that the same may be duly dealt with according to law.
The siege was raised, and the Lord of Sheppey was left alone in his glory.
The Isle of Sheppey slid by on the port side guarded by the port of Sheerness.