George Sheldrake

 was an inventor as well as founder and CEO of Sheldrake Industries from 41st century Earth. (AUDIO: Buying Time, The Wrong Woman)

Biography
George Sheldrake was helped to create time travel technology by the Nun. He eventually betrayed her, stealing her TARDIS’ temporal velocitar and sending her into the Time Vortex. (AUDIO: The Wrong Woman) Developing the time tunnels, Sheldrake used time travel to foil investigations into his business practices, by sending agents to assassinate witnesses before the Space Security Service could meet them, and prepared to make the time tunnels available to the public. When Mark Seven began investigating him, Sheldrake arranged for his ship to crash on Mira.

On the eve of the time tunnels’ public launch he was visited by a pastor, (AUDIO: Buying Time) in actuality the Nun in disguise, (AUDIO: The Wrong Woman) who he had thrown out, and also ignored the warnings of the SSS. (AUDIO: Buying Time) Sheldrake caught Anya Kingdom and the Nun when they infiltrated his base, witnessing the Nun’s escape in her TARDIS. Unaware the Nun had reclaimed her velocitar, Sheldrake activated his public time tunnels on schedule causing a temporal cataclysm. After the disaster was stopped by the Tenth Doctor, Sheldrake was confronted by him and SSS agents however he pointed out that they still had no evidence to arrest him. The Doctor pointed out he was likely to be blamed for the disaster by the public, destroying his reputation and making him liable for numerous lawsuits. Realising he was right, Sheldrake begged the agents to arrest him but they just walked away from him. (AUDIO: The Wrong Woman)