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8 September 1980. (1980-09-08) (aged 86) Bromley, England. Parent. Rev. John Howard Shakespeare (father) Sir Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, 1st Baronet PC (23 September 1893 – 8 September 1980) was a British Liberal Party politician.
Sir Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, 1st Baronet (1893–1980) Sir William Geoffrey Shakespeare, 2nd Baronet (1927–1996). Shakespeare was a highly respected general practitioner who practised at the Bedgrove Health Centre in Aylesbury. He had achondroplasia. [2] He inherited the baronetcy in 1980 on the death of his father.
Son of Sir William [Geoffrey Shakespeare], 2nd Baronet, and Susan Mary, daughter of A. Douglas Raffel, of Colombo, Sri Lanka, [1] his grandfather, Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, was made a baronet following long service as a member of Parliament and in various senior government roles.
Signature. William Shakespeare (c. 23 [ a ] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [ b ] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 September 2024. The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 [a] in Stratford ...
Two Gentlemen of Verona by Angelica Kauffman (1789). The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1589 and 1593.It is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play, [a] and is often seen as showing his first tentative steps in laying out some of the themes and motifs with which he would later deal in more detail; for example, it is ...
King Lear, George Frederick Bensell. King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between his daughters Goneril and Regan, who pay homage to gain favour, feigning love. The King's third daughter, Cordelia, is ...
Poets' Corner is a section of the southern transept of Westminster Abbey in London, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated. The first poet interred in Poets' Corner was Geoffrey Chaucer in 1400. [ 1 ] William Shakespeare was commemorated with a monument in 1740, over a century after his death.