Frederick Shaw (Tasmanian politician)

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Frederick Shaw (28 August 1847 - 24 August 1923) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1899 to 1903, representing the electorate of Glamorgan. [1]

Shaw was born at Swansea, Tasmania, son of pastoralist Edward Carr Shaw, and raised on his family's property, "Red Banks". [1] He was a Municipality of Glamorgan councillor for around twenty years, including several terms as warden, and was a long-serving justice of the peace, serving as chairman of the Glamorgan Court of General Sessions and a member of the Licensing Bench. [2] [3]

Shaw was elected to the House of Assembly at an 1899 by-election caused by the resignation of Edward Miles. [4] He was re-elected unopposed in 1900. [5] The Glamorgan electorate was abolished in a 1903 redistribution, and Shaw did not contest that year's election. [1] [6]

In later life, he suffered from partial blindness. He died at his Swansea home in 1923. [2]

His brother Bernard Shaw served as Secretary of Mines and Commissioner of Police. His sister Martha Shaw married Premier of New South Wales William Lyne, becoming Lady Lyne. [7] [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Frederick Shaw". Members of the Parliament of Tasmania . Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  2. 1 2 "PERSONAL". The Mercury . Vol. CXIX, no. 17, 434. Tasmania, Australia. 28 August 1923. p. 6. Retrieved 30 August 2021– via Trove.
  3. ↑ "GLAMORGAN". The Mercury . Vol. LIX, no. 6, 829. Tasmania, Australia. 14 January 1892. p. 2 (The Mercury Supplement). Retrieved 30 August 2021– via Trove.
  4. ↑ "Glamorgan". The North Western Advocate and The Emu Bay Times . Tasmania, Australia. 26 October 1899. p. 2. Retrieved 30 August 2021– via Trove.
  5. ↑ "UNOPPOSED MEMBERS". The Mount Lyell Standard And Strahan Gazette . Vol. 4, no. 534. Tasmania, Australia. 6 March 1900. p. 2. Retrieved 30 August 2021– via Trove.
  6. ↑ "THE NOMINATIONS". The Examiner (Tasmania) . Vol. LXIII, no. 71. Tasmania, Australia. 24 March 1903. p. 4 (DAILY.). Retrieved 30 August 2021– via Trove.
  7. ↑ "DEATH OF LADY LYNE". Truth . No. 677. New South Wales, Australia. 26 July 1903. p. 4. Retrieved 30 August 2021– via Trove.
  8. ↑ "THE GLAMORGAN ELECTION". Emu Bay Times And North West And West Coast Advocate . Vol. XVII, no. 148. Tasmania, Australia. 10 October 1899. p. 3. Retrieved 30 August 2021– via Trove.
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