Bobby Shaftoe

Bobby Shaftoe

Bobby Shaftoe may refer to

*Bobby Shafto, an 18th Century English politician and subject of a famous song.
*Bobby Shaftoe, a lead character in the novel "Cryptonomicon".
*Sergeant Bob Shaftoe, a 17th century character in Neal Stephenson's "The Baroque Cycle", brother of Jack Shaftoe, an ancestor of Bobby Shaftoe.

ee also

* Robert Shafto


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