page_title: Sir Hereward Wake, 13th Baronet
section_title: Personal life and other interests
hierarchical_section_title: Sir Hereward Wake, 13th Baronet / Personal life and other interests
caption_attribution_description: English: Slipton: former ironstone quarry and railway
context_page_description: Major General Sir Hereward Wake, 13th Baronet, CB, CMG, DSO was a British Army officer. Born into an historic noble family, he joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps as a second lieutenant in 1897. He served on the staff during the Second Boer War, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. During the First World War, he served again as a staff officer, reaching the temporary rank of brigadier general. After the war, Wake commanded the 4th battalion, KRRC, in British India, and was aide-de-camp to George V. He commanded the 12th Infantry Brigade and after his promotion to major general, the 46th Division.
  Wake retired from the army in 1937 but maintained links, being appointed colonel commandant of the KRRC, and later chairing the Northamptonshire Territorial Army Association. During the Second World War, he commanded the county's Local Defence Volunteers, and was colonel-commandant of the 1st battalion of the Northamptonshire Army Cadet Force. He also held non-military roles as a Deputy Lieutenant and High Sheriff of Northamptonshire.
context_section_description: Wake married Margaret Winifred Benson, the daughter of banker and art collector Robin Benson, at St George's Hanover Square Church, Westminster, on 30 October 1912. The Wakes lived at the ancestral home, Courteenhall House. They had seven children, including Hereward Wake who also served in the KRRC, and inherited the baronetcy. One of their daughters, Diana Wake, was killed in a riding accident at Bicester Hunt Races on 11 March 1950.
  Wake was appointed as a deputy lieutenant for Northamptonshire on 29 July 1922. He was nominated for the position of High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in November 1925 and 1938, before holding the position in 1944.
  Wake had a keen interest in history and was an early member of the Northamptonshire Record Society, founded by his sister Joan Wake in 1920. During his time at the war department he recognised the historic importance of some of its buildings and was responsible for handing over the keep of Dover Castle, previously used as a rifle store and at risk of fire damage, to the Office of Works for preservation. Wake owned a 1599 painting of Drue Drury.
  Wake also played a key role in highlighting the damage caused to Northamptonshire by ironstone workings. He chaired a sub-committee on the issue for the county's branch of the Country Landowners Association and was a member of the Northamptonshire County Planning Committee. Wake opposed the findings of the Kennet Committee which recommended against any action to restore the workings. He played a role in persuading government to pass an act, proposed by Hugh Dalton, to mandate the restoration of all current ironstone workings and several thousand acres of former workings. In later life he lived in Hampshire but continued to monitor the progress of restoration on visits to Northamptonshire. Wake died on 4 August 1963.
caption: Site of a former ironstone quarry, Slipton, Northamptonshire
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