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2 unusual facts about Bobby Shaftoe


Bobby Shaftoe

Sergeant Bob Shaftoe, a 17th-century character in Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle, brother of Jack Shaftoe, an ancestor of Bobby Shaftoe

Bobby Shafto, 18th-century English politician and subject of a famous song



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Whitworth Hall, County Durham

John was the father of Robert Shafto, better known as Bobby Shaftoe, who vastly increased the family fortune by his marriage in 1774 to Anne Duncombe of Duncombe Park.