Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet
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.[1][2] 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.[3][4]
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
- Wake baronets
References
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| Baronetage of England | ||
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| Preceded by | Baronet (of Clevedon) 1963–2017 | Succeeded by Hereward Charles Wake |
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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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sources
- The Descendants of Robert Benson www.pennyghael.org.uk
Family tree of the Benson family
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