Charles Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon

Charles James Dalrymple Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon, (15 August 1906 – 10 September 1989) was a Scottish judge and law lord.

Family and education He was the son of James Edward Shaw and his wife Gladys Elizabeth Lester (the daughter of the Rev. John Moore Lester and granddaughter of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Parkinson Lester). In the same year he was sworn of the Privy Council.

Shaw was chancellor of the Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness as well as of the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles and acted as director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He was chairman of the Scottish Transport Council and of the Standing Consultative Council on Youth Service in Scotland. He also chaired a committee on children in trouble. Nearly all its recommendations were enacted in new bills and created the basic structures of child care practices and policies in Scotland.