About Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet
Lived 1916 – 2017 (aged 101). Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet was a British military personnel.
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. 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.
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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Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet was born on 7 October 1916.
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