Shakespeare baronets
| Shakespeare baronets | |
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 Coat of Arms of the Shakespeare baronets of Lakenham | |
| Creation date | 1942 |
| Status | extant |
| Arms | Or, on a bend between in chief a portcullis and in base an anchor sable, a spear of the field. |
| Crest | In front of a portcullis sable an eagle rising, grasping with the dexter claw a spear or, barbed argent.[1] |
The Shakespeare baronetcy, of Lakenham in the City of Norwich, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1942 for the Liberal politician Geoffrey Shakespeare. The 3rd and current Baronet is a geneticist and sociologist.
The Shakespeare baronets descend from Richard Shakespeare, the grandfather of the playwright William Shakespeare.[2]
Shakespeare baronets of Lakenham (1942)
[edit]- Sir Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, 1st Baronet (1893–1980)
- Sir William Geoffrey Shakespeare, 2nd Baronet (1927–1996) was a general practitioner who practised at the Bedgrove Health Centre in Aylesbury. He had achondroplasia.[3] He inherited the baronetcy in 1980 on the death of his father. The title passed to the eldest of his children, Tom Shakespeare, on his death in 1996.[4]
- Sir Thomas William "Tom" Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet (born 1966)
The heir presumptive is the present holder's brother James Douglas Geoffrey Shakespeare (born 1971).
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
- ↑ The Lives of Dwarfs: Their Journey from Public Curiosity Toward Social Liberation, Betty M. Adelson, Rutgers University Press, 2005, p. 341
- ↑ "Pass it on » Tom Shakespeare".
- ↑ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3578
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