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Robert Shafto (2 December 1690 – December 1729), of Whitworth Hall, Spennymoor, County Durham, was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1712 and 1729. Whitworth Hall and deer park
Robert Shafto may refer to: Robert Shafto (1690–1729) , English politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of Durham 1712–1713, 1727–1730 Bobby Shafto (1732–1797), English MP for Durham 1760–1768, and for Downton 1780–1790
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).
The marriage of Robert Eden Duncombe Shafto of Whitworth to Catherine Eden brought the estate at Beamish Hall to the family. On his death in 1848, the estate passed to his third son Thomas Duncombe Shafto, and then on the latter's death in 1885 to his nephew Slingsby Arthur Duncombe Shafto (1844-1904), son of Rev Slingsby Duncombe Shafto.
Robert Duncombe Shafto (1806 – 22 March 1889) was a British Liberal Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Durham from 1847 to 1868. [1] [2]
Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, 1st Baron Waveney (25 August 1811 – 15 February 1886) [1] was a British Liberal Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridge for 8 of the years from 1847 to 1857.
Hannah, Lady Hawks (d. 1863), who was the widow of Sir Robert Shafto Hawks, and her two sons, sold their shares, in 1840, to George Crawshay, who was a member of a prominent iron-making family of south Wales, who had been bought out of his family's iron business in London by his brother William Crawshay II. The business of William Hawks was ...
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 ...