Charles' mother was English, and very proud of it. In fact, her father was a General in the British army. She married a man (Charles' father) whose Quaker family had come to Ireland from Yorkshire in 1720. He was a bit of a wild man, and she quickly discovered that Ireland was not England. That having been said, Charles' mother had a fairly wild side too, but that's another story. The roots of ShackletonThomas furniture designs are a mixture of English Georgian and rural Irish. The English Collection shows off Charles' more restrained and principled side with classic molding and detailing.