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.

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  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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