Sir Geoffrey Adam Shakerley, 6th Baronet (9 December 1932 – 3 December 2012) was an

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aristocrat and society

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Biography

Elder son and heir of Sir Cyril Holland Shakerley, 5th Baronet, by Elizabeth Averil, née Eardley-Wilmot, he was educated at

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and

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. After serving as a 2nd Lieutenant in the KRRC and studying for the

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exams, he decided that his interest in photography would make a more fulfilling career. Shakerley photographed the

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; it was later admitted that

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's face was digitally enhanced by taking a happier smile from another photograph and placing it on some of the released shots to the press. He admitted to having used

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, in time-honoured tradition, to adjust the height of some wedding guests in his shots. He married his first wife, the actress

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in 1962; the couple had two children, born in 1963 and 1966, but Maskell died, by suicide, in 1968, by taking an overdose of sleeping tablets, and from exposure after lying down in a wood. On 27 July 1972, Shakerley married Lady Elizabeth Anson, daughter of Thomas, Viscount Anson, and

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, in

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. Her brother was society fashion photographer

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was one of the bridesmaids. They had one daughter, born 18 August 1973. Lady Elizabeth and Shakerley separated in 1986 and divorced in 2009. His third wife was Virginia Hobson, whom he married in 2010.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shakerley, Geoffrey Adam 1932 births 2012 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom English photographers People educated at Harrow School