Sir Charles Gerald Stewkley Shuckburgh, 12th Baronet (28 February 1911 – 4 May 1988) was the 12th

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of the Shuckburgh baronets of

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. He was a first-class

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who played in a single match for

in 1930. He was born at

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, Warwickshire, the elder son of the 11th baronet. Shuckburgh was educated at

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and at Trinity College, Oxford.

Cricket career

He was prominent in cricket at Harrow and played in the

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match at

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in three seasons from 1927 to 1929 as a right-handed middle order batsman. At

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, he played in the freshmen's trial match in 1930, but was not successful and did not appear in any first-class cricket for the university side. That same year, however, he played for

in a high-scoring match against

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, but failed to score in his only innings.

Military career

He was commissioned into the Territorial Army on 29 June 1938 and appointed to the

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, which was being expanded from a single artillery battery to form a new 11th (CoLY) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery. The regiment defended vital points in West London from air attack during the early part of

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. In September 1941, as a captain, he was one of a number of officers transferred from the 11th (CoLY) LAA Regiment to a new 73rd LAA Regiment, with Shuckburgh serving as

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. By March 1942 he was a major and battery commander, but went into hospital and was struck off the strength of the regiment and posted to the Royal Artillery Depot.73 LAA Rgt War Diary 1942, TNA file WO 166/7662. He ended the war in the rank of major and was awarded the

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in 1946.''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953.

Family

He married Remony Dorothy Bell, only daughter of the late Frederick N. Bell of

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, on 11 December 1935, but she died on 2 May 1936. He married secondly, on 22 May 1937, Nancy Diana Mary Lubbock, only daughter of Captain Rupert Egerton Lubbock, RN, grandson of Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet, and nephew of John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. They had four children: * Remony Charmian, born 27 April 1938 * Robin James Stewkley, born 7 December 1941, died 20 March 1944 * Amanda Maria, born 15 July 1946 * Sir Rupert Charles Gerald Shuckburgh, 13th Baronet, born 12 February 1949, died 2012 He inherited the baronetcy from his father in 1939 and was later High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant for Warwickshire. He died at White Colne,

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References

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