Sir Charles Shaw, 1st Baronet

Theodore Frederick Charles Edward Shaw 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, where he matriculated in 1886 at age 27.

Career

Shaw was Managing Director and Chairman of John Shaw & Sons Ltd. of Wolverhampton. He was a Member of Wolverhampton Town Council, a Captain in the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment and was Liberal MP for Stafford from 1892 to December 1910.
In 1908, Shaw was created a baronet.

Private life

Shaw married at St Mark's Chapel, North Audley Street, Piccadilly, on 17 January 1900, Emily White Bursill, daughter of Henry Bursill, of Hampstead. The couple lived at Charters at Sunningdale in Berkshire, with their two daughters.