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Tue death is announced at Cheltenham of Major-General G. B. Shakespear 
(retired), He was first commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, 13th December, 1836 ; 
became Ist Lieutenant, 11th September, 1839; 2nd Captain, 9th November, 
1846; Captain, 30th August, 1852; Lieutenant-Colonel; 22nd December, 1857; 
Colonel, 22nd December, 1862, and retired with the rank of Major-General, 
10th March, 1875. 
