Family and Education
b. ?1770, 2nd s. of Richard Shaw, merchant, of Walworth, Surr. by w. Mary. m. 5 Apr. 1815, Mary, da. of Joseph Ewart, 1s. suc. fa. 1790.
Offices Held
Dir. Union Fire Co. 1804 – 07, 1811 – 19, dep. chairman 1808; dir. Rock Life Assurance Office 1812 – 14; dir. Commercial Dock Co. 1815, dep. chairman 1817, chairman 1820, 1826–7 and 1840; treasurer 1841 – 43; member, Soc. of Shipowners 1817; chairman, Port of London committee 1817; dir. London Univ. jt. stock co. and member of council for the univ. 1825; member of Lloyd’s committee 1811, chairman 1824 – 26; dir. Anglo Mexican mint and mining cos. 1827.
1st lt. St. Olave vols. 1798, capt. 1799, capt. commdt. 1803; lt.-col. 5 Surr. militia 1813.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: 29 Lower Brook Street, Mdx.
Notes
Not to be confused, as in Beaven, Aldermen of London, i. 310; with Benjamin Shaw, the sugar cooper and common councilman (d. 1809).
Volume
Commons 1790-1820
Web Title
SHAW, Benjamin (?1770-1843)
Will
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Oxford 1644
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