Edward Shaw

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, he was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.

He was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, Shaw had made his debut for Buckinghamshire in the Minor Counties Championship in 1908 against Wiltshire. He undertook studies at Brasenose College, Oxford, 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. In his 13 first-class matches, he scored 424 runs at an average of 21.20, with a high score of 57 not out. 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, He was killed in action near Le Sars in France during the Battle of the Somme on 7 October 1916.

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.