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	Colonel '''John Shakespear''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|CMG\|CIE\|DSO}} (1 September 1861, [[Indore]] – 1942) was an officer of the [[Army of India\|British Army in India]], an [[Indian Political Service]] officer, and an author.<ref name=WhoWho>{{cite journal\|title=Shakespear, Lt.-Col. John\|journal=Who's Who\|page= 2221\|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047639912;view=1up;seq=2263}}</ref> He was the youngest of the three sons of Sir [[Richmond Shakespear]].		Colonel '''John Shakespear''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|CMG\|CIE\|DSO}} (1 September 1861, [[Indore]] – 1942) was an officer of the [[Army of India\|British Army in India]], an [[Indian Political Service]] officer, and an author.<ref name=WhoWho>{{cite journal\|title=Shakespear, Lt.-Col. John\|journal=Who's Who\|page= 2221\|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047639912;view=1up;seq=2263}}</ref> He was the youngest of the three sons of Sir [[Richmond Shakespear]].

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Colonel '''John Shakespear''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG|CIE|DSO}} (1 September 1861, [[Indore]] – 1942) was an officer of the [[Army of India|British Army in India]], an [[Indian Political Service]] officer, and an author.<ref name=WhoWho>{{cite journal|title=Shakespear, Lt.-Col. John|journal=Who's Who|page= 2221|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047639912;view=1up;seq=2263}}</ref> He was the youngest of the three sons of Sir [[Richmond Shakespear]].

After education at [[Wellington College, Berkshire]] and the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]], Shakespear was commissioned into the [[Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)]] on 22 July 1881 as a 2nd lieutenant and was promoted to lieutenant on 1 July 1881.<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Army List, Militia List, Yeomanry Cavalry List, and Indian Civil Service List|year=1884|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UPANAAAAQAAJ|last1=Hart|first1=Henry George}}</ref>

He was an intelligence officer for the Lushai Expeditionary Force in 1888. He served with the Chin-Lushai Expedition in 1889–1890 and was awarded the DSO in 1890.<ref name=WhoWho/> He served at Lushai in 1892 and was in command of the force that took part in the operations in the South Lushai Hills.<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Army List, and Militia List|date=April 1911|page=1207|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4231606;view=1up;seq=1223}}</ref> He was promoted to major in 1895 and was appointed CIE in 1896.<ref name=WhoWho/> He served from 1891 to 1896 as Superintendent of the South Lushai Hills.<ref>{{cite The Indian Biographical Dictionary|wstitle=Shakespeare, John}}</ref> He was appointed Assistant Commissioner, Assam in 1896 and Deputy Commissioner, Assam in 1897. He served as [[Residencies of British India|Political Agent]] in Manipur from 1905 to 1917. He was appointed CMG in 1917.<ref name=WhoWho/>

Shakespear married in 1892.<ref name=WhoWho/> He was keenly interested in the custody of his father's papers and in the history of the Shakespear family. John Shakespear left notes on the state of Manipur and its royal family and some draft chapters of his autobiography.<ref name=ArchivesUK>{{cite web|title=Shakespear, John, 1861–1942, Colonel; Reference: RSAA/SC/S/JS|website=National Archives (discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk)|url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/0f33db0f-7d07-4ec6-b8cf-b20dbcb95b99}}</ref>

==Selected publications==
*{{cite book|title=The Lushais and the Land they Live in|year=1894}}
*{{cite book|title=The Lushei Kuki Clans|year=1912|publisher=Macmillan|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001275174}}
*{{cite book|title=The Thirty-fourth Division, 1915–1918|year=1921|publisher=H. F. & G. Witherby|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000443047}}

==References==
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