Bobby Shafto (1732–1797), English MP for Durham 1760–1768, and for Downton 1780–1790
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Robert Duncombe Shafto (1796–1888), English politician, MP for North Durham 1847–1888
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John's son Robert Shafto (1732-1797) was a politician known famously as 'Bobby Shafto'.
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.
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Two sons of Mark Shafto junior represented Durham City in Parliament: Robert Shafto 1712/3 and 1727/30 and John Shafto 1729-42.
It became home to a branch of the Shafto family of Bavington Hall until the 1770s, when it was sold by Robert Shafto (the son of Bobby Shafto, immortalised in the song of the same name).