Robert Shaw

SHAW, ROBERT, lawyer; b. 2 September 1845 in New Perth, son of Robert Shaw and Jane Williams; m. 5 December 1873 Florence M. J. Yuill, in Truro, NS, and they had three children, Joseph, Lottie G. and Robert (died at 18 months); Presbyterian; d. 22 March 1882 in Charlottetown. Shaw, a Conservative, was elected to the House of Assembly in the general election of 1879 for 3rd Queens. He served as a member until his death. Shaw's brother Cyrus Shaw" was a member of the House of Assembly. Shaw was educated at Central Academy and Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown. He attended Dalhousie University in Halifax, where he received a Bachelor of Arts with first class honours. At his graduation, Shaw received first prizes in Classics, Mathematics, History, and Ethics. On returning to the Island, he studied law in the office of Palmer and MacLeod, where Herbert Palmer* also studied. In 1870 Shaw was called to the Bar. Robert Shaw died 22 March 1882. Florence Shaw, the daughter of Gregor Yuill of Truro, Nova Scotia, was born in 1853.