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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).
He was succeeded by his nephew Sir Cuthbert Shafto, High Sheriff in 1795 and later by his son Robert. Sir Cuthbert was divorced by his wife, Mary, in 1797, 'by reason of cruelty and adultery.' [1] Robert Ingram Shafto held Bavington in 1835 but the male line became extinct and the estate passed to cousins in a junior branch of the family of ...
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
Shafto was the eldest son of Mark Shafto of Whitworth and his wife Margaret Ingleby, daughter of Sir John Ingleby, 2nd Baronet of Ripley, Yorkshire. He matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford in 1708. [1] Shafto was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of Durham at a by-election on 3 March 1712. On 10 April 1713 he was appointed ...
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.
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]
Notable members included Sir Robert Shafto Hawks (1768 - 1840); Joseph Hawks DL JP (1791 - 1873), merchant banker and Sheriff of Newcastle; George Hawks (1801 - 1863), Grand Master of the Grand Cross Chapter of the Holy Temple of Jerusalem (Knights Templar); Mary Hawks (b. 1829), who was the wife of Richard Clement Moody, who was the founder of ...
The following people have the name Shafto: Bobby Shafto, 18th century British Member of Parliament (MP), the likeliest subject of a famous North East English folk song; Henry Shafto Harrison (1810–92) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Wanganui, New Zealand; Robert Duncombe Shafto (1796–1888), British Liberal Party politician