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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).
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 from 1712 until his death in 1729 and John 1729–1742. John's son Robert Shafto (1732-1797) was a politician known famously as 'Bobby Shafto'. He married heiress Anne Duncombe. He was Member of Parliament for County Durham 1760-1768 and later for Downton, Wiltshire 1780–90.
Armando Navarro Jr., 50, is the ex-boyfriend of Jodie Hopcus, who was killed alongside her mother, Sherri Duncan, and her daughter, Hailey Hopcus
The Opies (folklorists) have argued for an identification of the original Bobby Shafto with a resident of Hollybrook, County Wicklow, Ireland, who died in 1737. [1] However, the tune derives from the earlier "Brave Willie Forster", found in the Henry Atkinson manuscript from the 1690s, [3] and the William Dixon manuscript, from the 1730s, both from north-east England; besides these early ...
Robert "Bobby" Cavanaugh, of Madison Heights, Michigan, was beaten to death on Christmas Eve after he tried to save a dog who was being abused by a neighbor and alleged repeated felon, witnesses said.
Willie Rogers, 57, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of 75-year-old Earnestine Mortimore. She was killed inside her home on April 28, 1995, according to the Palm Beach Post ...
Bobby Shaftoe may refer to: Bobby Shafto, 18th-century English politician and subject of a famous song; Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea, the song itself; Bobby Shaftoe, a lead character in Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon; Sergeant Bob Shaftoe, a related 17th-century character in Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle