Shakespeare baronets
Baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
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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 third and current Baronet is a geneticist and sociologist.
The Shakespeare baronets descend from Richard Shakespeare, the grandfather of the playwright William Shakespeare.[1]
Shakespeare baronets of Lakenham (1942)
- 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. The title passed to the eldest of his children, Tom Shakespeare, on his death in 1996.[3]
- Sir Thomas William "Tom" Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet (born 1966)
The heir presumptive is the present holder's brother James Douglas Geoffrey Shakespeare (born 1971).
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