Thomas Shaw-Hellier

Colonel Thomas Bradney Shaw-Hellier watering his garden at Villa San Giorgio, Taormina, Sicily. Photo by his friend Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856-1931) of Taormina

Colonel Thomas Bradney Shaw-Hellier (1836–1910), 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, of The Wodehouse near Wombourne, Staffordshire, and of Villa San Giorgio (now Hotel Ashby) in Taormina, Sicily, was Director of the Royal Military School of Music. He was a gentleman farmer, described as a leading breeder of Jersey cattle.