Sunday 7 August 2016

1286 Charles Shaw




Constituency : Stafford  1892 - 1910

Charles  took  Stafford  from  the  Tories.

Charles  was  educated  at  Tettenhall  College  and  Oxford.

Charles  was  chairman  and  managing  director  of  the  family merchant  firm. He  sat  on  Wolverhampton  Town  Council.

Charles  saw  himself  as  a  Radical  and  supported  trade  unions. He  clung  on  to  his  seat  by  tiny  majorities. Even  in  1906  it  was  only  311  votes.

Charles  was  created  a  baronet  in  1908. He  stood  down  before  the  December  1910  election.

He  died  in  1942  aged  82.

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