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Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet

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Major Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet, MC (7 October 1916 – 11 December 2017) was a British Army officer and countryman, he was educated at Sandroyd School and Eton College. Wounded in World War II while serving as a major in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, he served as Northamptonshire's High Sheriff in 1955 and Vice-Lieutenant from 1984 to 1991.

He married Julia Lees in 1952: the couple had three daughters and one son, Hereward, who succeeded his father as the 15th Baronet. The family lived at Courteenhall in Northamptonshire.

See also

References

  1. "Courteenhall Sir H. Wake". domesday.
  2. "Major Sir Hereward Wake". 20 December 2017 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  3. Burke's Peerage & Baronetage 106th edition, page 2903
  4. "Sir Hereward Wake, Bt, soldier and landowner – obituary". 18 March 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.

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Baronetage of England
Preceded byHereward Wake Baronet
(of Clevedon)
1963–2017 		Succeeded byHereward Charles Wake
Benson family tree
Robert Stayner Holford
(1808–1892)		Mary Ann Lindsay
(1829–1901)		Robert Benson
(1814–1875)		Eleanor Sara Moorsom
(1824–1883)
Henry John
Brinsley Manners
(1852–1925)		Marion Margaret
Violet Lindsay
(1856–1937)		Evelyn Holford
(1856–1943)		Robert Henry Benson
(1850–1929)		Constantine William Benson
(1852–1905)		Emily Margaret Weston
(1850–1933)		Mary Constance Maude Benson
(1853–1939)		Edwyn Hoskyns
(1851–1925)
Violet Catherine Manners
(1888–1971)		Guy Holford Benson
(1888–1975)		William Humble Ward
(1867–1932)		Rosalind Frances Benson
(1899–1982)		Walter Michael
Hungerford Pollen
(1894–1968)
Condé Montrose Nast
(1873–1942)		Leslie Foster
(1907–1981)		Reginald Lindsay Benson
(1889–1968)		Morvyth Lillian Ward
(1896–1959)		Constantine Evelyn Benson
(1895–1960)		Robert Benson
(1881–1952)		Florence Gertrude
Fell-Smith
(1882–1974)		Edwyn Clement Hoskyns
(1884–1937)
Hereward Wake
(1876–1963)		Margaret Winifred Benson
(1892–1976)
Julia Rosemary Lees
(born 1931)		Hereward Wake
(1916–2017)		Roger Wake
(1918–1988)		Olwyn Mary
Wynne-Finch
(born 1924)		Gillian Benson
(1923–2003)		Edward Emile Tomkins
(1915–2007)		Peregrine Michael
Hungerford Pollen
(1931–2020)		Patricia Helen Barry
(1932–2016)		Constantine Walter Benson
(1909–1982)
Hereward Charles Wake
(born 1952)		Jehanne Deirdre
Alexandra Williams
(born 1966)		William Wake
(born 1949)		Arabella Rosalind
Hungerford Pollen
(born 1961)
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Family tree of the Benson family


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