Birth Name: | Edward Shaw |
Parliament2: | New Zealand |
Term Start2: | 14 May 1883 |
Term End2: | 24 June 1884 |
Predecessor2: | Thomas S. Weston |
Successor2: | Andrew Menteath |
Birth Date: | 1847 or 1848 |
Death Date: | February 1889 (age 41) |
Death Place: | Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia |
Restingplace: | Boroondara General Cemetery |
Occupation: | solicitor, judge |
Edward Shaw (– February 1889) was a 19th-century member of the New Zealand Parliament.
Shaw was originally an English barrister. He worked at Bishop's school in Nelson.[1] From there, he went to the Inangahua area of the Buller District on the West Coast as a resident warden and magistrate in Inangahua Junction, Reefton and Westport.[2] [3]
He represented the Inangahua electorate from to 1884, following the resignation of Thomas S. Weston.[4] After retiring in 1884, he later became a district judge. He later worked as a solicitor in Hawthorn near Melbourne. He died in Hawthorn and was buried at Boroondara General Cemetery on 23 February 1889 aged 41 years.[5] [6]