Background
Shaw was the eldest son of Edward Dethick Shaw and Millicent Augusta Gough, both of Wolverhampton.
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.
He was Managing Director and Chairman of John Shaw & Sons Limited. of Wolverhampton. He was a Captain in the 3rd Voluntary Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment. He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Stafford from 1892 to December 1910.
He was created 1st Baronet in 1908.
Shaw married at Saint Mark"s, Piccadelly, on 17 January 1900, Emily White Bursill, daughter of Henry Bursill, of Hampstead.
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He was a Member of Wolverhampton Town Council.