WAS
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English archivist and historian
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Male
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Birth:
19 April 1865
Death:
15 April 1943
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The details
Biography
Introduction
William Arthur Shaw (1865–1943) was an English historian and archivist.
Life
Born on 19 April 1865, in Hooley Hill, Ashton-under-Lyne, now in Greater Manchester, he was the son of James Shaw and his wife Sarah Ann Hampshire. He graduated B.A. at Owens College in 1883.
Shaw worked for the Chetham Society, and then the Public Record Office, as an editor. In 1940 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. He died on 15 April 1943.