Lauriston Elgie Shaw

Guy's Hospital staff 1896. Lauriston Elgie Shaw, front row, second from left. Lauriston Elgie Shaw FRCP (31 March 1859 – 25 December 1923) was an English physician and dean of the Guy's Hospital medical school from 1893 to 1901. He had an active part in framing the terms of the National Insurance Act 1911, which put him at odds with many of his colleagues who were strongly opposed to the legislation.

Early life and family Lauriston Elgie Shaw was born in London on 31 March 1859, the son of Archibald Shaw a medical practitioner of St. Leonards. He was educated at the City of London School and then University College, London. He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital and qualified in 1881.

Shaw married May, daughter of Howard Spalding. They had one son. He was made full physician in 1907 and consulting physician in 1919.

Death and legacy Shaw died from the effects of pulmonary tuberculosis, a disease he had suffered from for 40 years, at Weybridge, Surrey, on 25 December 1923. He received an obituary in the British Medical Journal and is recorded in Munk's Roll.