Edward Alfred Shaw (16 May 1892 −7 October 1916) was an English cricketer and British Army officer. A bespectacled man,Shaw was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. The son of Edward Domett Shaw,the first Bishop of Buckingham,and Agnes Shaw, [1] he was born in Bishop's Stortford,Hertfordshire.
He was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, [1] where he played for the college cricket team,playing for the team for 5 years,acting as captain in the last 3 of these. [2] Shaw had made his debut for Buckinghamshire in the Minor Counties Championship in 1908 against Wiltshire. [3] He undertook studies at Brasenose College,Oxford, [4] making his first-class debut for Oxford University Cricket Club against the Free Foresters. He made 12 further first-class appearances for the university,the last of which came against Cambridge University in 1914. [5] In his 13 first-class matches,he scored 424 runs at an average of 21.20,with a high score of 57 not out. [6] This score,one of two fifties he made,scoring 57 runs in both. Behind the stumps,he kept well to the awkward bowling of John Evans,Basil Melle and Philip Le Couteur, [2] taking 12 catches and making 8 stumpings. He was awarded his Oxford Blue as a freshman. [2] He also continued to play on an infrequent basis for Buckinghamshire,making 16 further Minor Counties Championship appearances,the last of which came against Dorset in 1914, [3] a match in which he scored 117 runs in his final innings for the county. [2]
Shaw served with during World War I with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry of the British Army. [1] He held the rank of lieutenant,before being promoted to the temporary rank of captain on 19 November 1915. [7] He was killed in action near Le Sars in France during the Battle of the Somme on 7 October 1916. [1] He is commemorated at the Thiepval Memorial. [8]
He was survived by his brother,Robert,who played first-class cricket and later became a Captain in the Royal Navy (RN). His younger brother,Bernard,was killed in the first year of World War I. His nephew,Brian Boobbyer,played first-class cricket for Oxford University and rugby union for England. [4]
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