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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).
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
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. He was succeeded by his son Robert Eden Duncombe Shafto (1776-1848
The song is also associated with the region, having been used by the supporters of Robert Shafto (sometimes spelt Shaftoe), who was an eighteenth-century British Member of Parliament (MP) for County Durham (c. 1730–97), and later the borough of Downton in Wiltshire. [1] Supporters used another verse in the 1761 election: Bobby Shafto's ...
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
When Sir Robert Shafto Hawks was informed of the purpose for which Samuel Tyne, the boat's inventor, had purchased iron from the Hawks company, he proffered for free the iron required for the task. Sir Robert arranged for cannons to be fired at the launch of the boat, which subsequently won races against wooden boats of the same capacity.
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]