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Surname	Sharman	Alternative Surname
First Name	Edward, of Peterborough	Initial of Surname	S
Year of Birth/Baptism	1773	Flourished
Year of Death	1805
Biographical Details	He was perhaps the son of John Sharman, a Peterborough builder. Sharman’s monuments and tablets are ‘good provincial work, the best being that to George Pochin which bas a relief of a mourning woman’ (4); (Gunnis 1968, 348). His obituary in the Gentleman’s Magazine says of him that his ‘goodness of heart was rarely equaled’ [sic] and his ‘natural genius was far above his opportunity of cultivating it’ (GM 1805, ii, 686). Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 348; Colvin 1995, 860