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]