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	==External links==		==External links==
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	*[http://www.oceannomad.com/Shakespear/shakespear.html Biography], with a picture.		*[http://www.oceannomad.com/Shakespear/shakespear.html Biography], with a picture.
	* [http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200205/the.captain.and.the.king.htm The Captain and the King], from ''Saudi Aramco World''.		* [http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200205/the.captain.and.the.king.htm The Captain and the King], from ''Saudi Aramco World''.

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	Captain '''William Henry Irvine Shakespear''' (29 October 1878 – 24 January 1915), was a British [[civil servant]] and explorer who mapped uncharted areas of Northern Arabia and made the first official British contact with [[Ibn Sa'ud]], future king of [[Saudi Arabia]]. He was the military adviser to Ibn Sa'ud from 1910 to 1915, when he was shot and killed in the [[Battle of Jarrab]] by Ibn Shraim.		Captain '''William Henry Irvine Shakespear''' (29 October 1878 – 24 January 1915), was a British [[civil servant]] and explorer who mapped uncharted areas of Northern Arabia and made the first official British contact with [[Ibn Sa'ud]], future king of [[Saudi Arabia]]. He was the military adviser to Ibn Sa'ud from 1910 to 1915, when he was shot and killed in the [[Battle of Jarrab]] by Ibn Shraim. He was buried in Kuwait.

	==Arabian expeditions==		==Arabian expeditions==
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	"His death... was a great loss to his country, but it was a disaster to the Arab cause. It must certainly be reckoned in the small category of individual events which have changed the course of history. Had he survived to continue a work for which he was so eminently suited, it is extremely doubtful whether subsequent campaigns of Lawrence would ever have taken place in the west..."		"His death... was a great loss to his country, but it was a disaster to the Arab cause. It must certainly be reckoned in the small category of individual events which have changed the course of history. Had he survived to continue a work for which he was so eminently suited, it is extremely doubtful whether subsequent campaigns of [[T. E. Lawrence\|Lawrence]] would ever have taken place in the west..."
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	<br />''Arabia'', H. St. John Philby, London (1930), pp 233 - 234.		<br />''Arabia'', H. St. John Philby, London (1930), pp 233 - 234.
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	==External links==		==External links==
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	*[http://www.oceannomad.com/Shakespear/shakespear.html Biography], with a picture.		*[http://www.oceannomad.com/Shakespear/shakespear.html Biography], with a picture.
	* [http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200205/the.captain.and.the.king.htm The Captain and the King], from ''Saudi Aramco World''.		* [http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200205/the.captain.and.the.king.htm The Captain and the King], from ''Saudi Aramco World''.

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{{Infobox person
| name = William Shakespear
| image = William Henry Irvine Shakespear.png
| image_size = 150
| caption =
| birth_name = William Henry Irvine Shakespear
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1878|10|29|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Mumbai|Bombay]], British India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|1|24|1878|10|29|df=y}}
| death_place = Lake Jarrab, [[Al Majma'ah]], [[Arabia]]
| occupation = Civil Servant
| known_for = Explorer
}}

Captain '''William Henry Irvine Shakespear''' (29 October 1878 – 24 January 1915), was a British [[civil servant]] and explorer who mapped uncharted areas of Northern Arabia and made the first official British contact with [[Ibn Sa'ud]], future king of [[Saudi Arabia]]. He was the military adviser to Ibn Sa'ud from 1910 to 1915, when he was shot and killed in the [[Battle of Jarrab]] by Ibn Shraim.

==Arabian expeditions==
While in Kuwait, Shakespear made seven separate expeditions into the Arabian interior, during which he became a close friend of [[Ibn Sa'ud]], then the [[Emir]] of the [[Nejd]]. It was Shakespear who arranged for Ibn Sa'ud to be photographed for the first time. Ibn Sa'ud had never seen a camera before. In March 1914, Shakespear began a {{convert|2900|km|mi|-2|sing=on}} journey from Kuwait to [[Riyadh]] and on to [[Aqaba]] via the [[Nafud]] Desert, which he mapped and studied in great detail, the first European to do so. In November 1914, the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] government in India asked Shakespear to secure Ibn Sa'ud's support for the British-Indian Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, which had just taken [[Basra]].

==Aftermath==
It has been suggested by some authorities, notably [[St. John Philby]], that the [[Arab Revolt]] against the [[Ottoman Empire]] might have been very differently directed if Shakespear had survived, that the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] would have supported and armed Ibn Sa'ud rather than [[Sherif Hussein ibn Ali]].

<blockquote>
"His death... was a great loss to his country, but it was a disaster to the Arab cause. It must certainly be reckoned in the small category of individual events which have changed the course of history. Had he survived to continue a work for which he was so eminently suited, it is extremely doubtful whether subsequent campaigns of Lawrence would ever have taken place in the west..."
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<br />''Arabia'', H. St. John Philby, London (1930), pp 233 - 234.
</blockquote>

==External links==
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*[http://www.oceannomad.com/Shakespear/shakespear.html Biography], with a picture.
* [http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200205/the.captain.and.the.king.htm The Captain and the King], from ''Saudi Aramco World''.
* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shakespeare/military/capt_wm_hy/capt_wm_hy.htm Notes by the biographer Harry Victor F. Winstone and David Wingate on a Shakespeare Family Genealogical Site]
* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shakespeare/military/capt_wm_hy/memorial.htm Memorial Stone]
*[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-30796539 BBC - Shakespear of Arabia]

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