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John was the father of Robert Shafto, better known as Bobby Shaftoe, who vastly increased the family fortune by his marriage in 1774 to Anne Duncombe of Duncombe Park. Their son Robert Eden Duncombe Shafto , (also Member of Parliament for Durham City and later High Sheriff in 1842), who married Catherine Eden, daughter of Sir John Eden Bt of ...
Robert Shafto (sometimes spelt Shaftoe) (circa 1732 – 24 November 1797) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1760 and 1790. He was the likely subject of a famous North East English folk song and nursery rhyme , " Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea " ( Roud #1359).
Whitworth Hall Country Park is a parkland based set in 73 acres (300,000 m 2) 8 miles (13 km) from Durham in England, which rests on the outskirts of the town of Spennymoor in County Durham. The park includes Whitworth Hall , a Grade II listed stately mansion (the ancestral home of Bobby Shafto an 18th-century MP ) hotel, deer park, lake and ...
John's son Robert Shafto (1732-1797) was a politician known famously as 'Bobby Shafto'. He married heiress Anne Duncombe. He married heiress Anne Duncombe. He was Member of Parliament for County Durham 1760-1768 and later for Downton, Wiltshire 1780–90.
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Spennymoor is a town and civil parish in County Durham, England. It is south of the River Wear and is 7 mi (11 km) south of Durham . The civil parish includes the villages of Kirk Merrington , Middlestone Moor , Byers Green and Tudhoe .