Education
Shaw was a lawyer by profession, having studied at Trinity College, Oxford (where he was President of the Oxford Union in 1905) and being called to the bar in 1908.
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Alexander Shaw
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During the First World War he served in the Royal Marine Artillery and was involved in the Battle of the Somme. Outside Parliament, he was a director of the Bank of England and Chairman of P & O. The son of the Law Lord Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle, he succeeded to the peerage on his father"s death in 1937. He was then elected as a Coalition Liberal for the new county constituency of Kilmarnock, retaining the seat as a Liberal in 1922.
He resigned from the House of Commons on 12 November 1923 by the procedural device of accepting a nominal appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. no by-election was held, and the seat remained vacant when Parliament was dissolved on 16 November for the 1923 general election.
Membership
30th United Kingdom Parliament. 31st United Kingdom Parliament. 32nd United Kingdom Parliament]
He was elected unopposed as the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for the Kilmarnock Burghs at a by-election in 1915, and held the seat until its abolition for the 1918 general election.
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Political Party
Liberal party