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Shapcott is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:

English language West Germanic language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and eventually became a global lingua franca. It is named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to the area of Great Britain that later took their name, as England. Both names derive from Anglia, a peninsula in the Baltic Sea. The language is closely related to Frisian and Low Saxon, and its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse, and to a greater extent by Latin and French.

Jo Shapcott English poet, editor

Jo Shapcott FRSL is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award.

Michael Shapcott is a Canadian academic whose public policy research focuses on housing, homelessness, and the relationships between health, poverty and housing. He has worked on housing and homelessness initiatives at all levels of government including international levels. He is currently Director of the Affordable Housing and Social Innovation at the Wellesley Institute (WI), a non-profit and non-partisan research and policy think tank in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was previously Executive Director of the Community/University Research Partnerships (CURP) program at University of Toronto's Centre for Urban and Community Studies, where he promoted links between academic research and social justice. Shapcott is a founding member of the National Housing and Homelessness Network and the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee and the Toronto Environmental Alliance, of which he continues to be a board member.

Morton Swan Shapcott was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Air Force officer. Ensliting in the Royal Air Force in 1926, Shapcott served in the Stores Branch for over thirty years, serving during the Second World War and reaching the rank of air commodore. He also played first-class cricket for the Royal Air Force cricket team from 1927–32.

Other uses

Shapcott Wensley was the pseudonym of the English author and poet Henry Shapcott Bunce.

See also

The Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, named in honour of a distinguished Queensland poet, is a literary award for an unpublished poetry manuscript by a Queensland based author. The prize was established in 2003 and currently comes with prize money of $2000 and a publication contract with the University of Queensland Press. Entry can be submitted from anyone residing in Queensland and the award is administered and managed by the Queensland Poetry Festival on behalf of Arts Queensland.

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