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William Shakespear (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 Saud from 1910 to 1915, when he was shot and killed in the Battle of Jarrab by one of Ibn Rashid's men.
==Early life==
He was born in Bombay, the son of William Henry Sulivan Shakespeare and Annie Caroline Davidson and educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and King William's College, Isle of Man. He entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst on 19 August 1896. He became a second lieutenant on 22 Jan 1898. In 1899, he joined the Devonshire Regiment, 17th Bengal Cavalry.
He then joined the Indian Political Department. In 1904, he joined the British Foreign Office and became the youngest vice-consul in British India. He was transferred to Kuwait. From 1909 on, he was the British Political Agent in Kuwait, subordinated to the respective agent in Bahrain. Shakespear was a great linguist who spoke Urdu, Pushtu, Persian and Arabic fluently.
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