The Shakerley Baronetcy, of
Somerford Park in the
County of Chester, is a title in the
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain.
Baronetage of England (1611–1705)
King James ...
. It was created on 30 July 1838 for Charles Shakerley,
High Sheriff of Cheshire
This is a list of Sheriffs (and after 1 April 1974, High Sheriffs) of Cheshire.
The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most ...
in 1837.
Shakerley baronets, of Somerford Park (1838)
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Sir Charles Peter Shakerley, 1st Baronet (1792–1857)
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Sir Charles Watkin Shakerley, 2nd Baronet, Knight Commander of the
KCB (1833–1898)
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Sir Walter Geoffrey Shakerley, 3rd Baronet (1859–1943)
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Sir George Herbert Shakerley, 4th Baronet (1863–1945)
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Sir Cyril Holland Shakerley, 5th Baronet (1897–1970)
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Sir Geoffrey Adam Shakerley, 6th Baronet (1932–2012)
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Sir Nicholas Simon Adam Shakerley, 7th Baronet (born 1963)
The
heir presumptive
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is the present holder's brother Peter Jonathan Shakerley (born 1966).
See also
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Hulme Hall, Allostock
Notes
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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External links
Website on the Shakerley family
Shakerley
Shakerley is a suburb of Tyldesley in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.
It was anciently a hamlet in the northwest of the township of Tyldesley cum Shakerley, in the ancient parish of
Leigh.
The boundary between S ...