Sir Charles Shaw, 1st Baronet
Theodore Frederick Charles Edward Shaw (11 September 1859 – 17 April 1942) was a British Liberal Party politician.
Background
Shaw was the eldest son of Edward Dethick Shaw and Millicent Augusta Gough, both of Wolverhampton. He was educated at Tettenhall College, Wolverhampton and Balliol College, Oxford.[1]
Career
He was Managing Director and Chairman of John Shaw & Sons Ltd. of Wolverhampton. He was a Member of Wolverhampton Town Council. He was a Captain in the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment.[2] He was Liberal MP for Stafford from 1892 to December 1910.[3] He was created 1st Baronet in 1908.[4]
Private life
Shaw married at St. Mark's, Piccadelly, on 17 January 1900, Emily White Bursill, daughter of Henry Bursill, of Hampstead.[5] The couple lived at Charters at Sunningdale in Berkshire, with their two daughters.[6]
Sources and References
- Who Was Who
- Debretts House of Commons and Judicial Bench - 1901
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1885 - 1918, F. W. S. Craig
External links
- 1859 births
- 1942 deaths
- Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1892–1895
- UK MPs 1895–1900
- UK MPs 1900–1906
- UK MPs 1906–1910
- UK MPs 1910
- People from Wolverhampton
- People from Sunningdale
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Stafford
- Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom