Charles Shaw (British Army Officer)
Brigadier-General Sir Charles Shaw (1795—22 February 1871) was a Scottish soldier and liberal, who served in the British Army and in British volunteer forces on the constitutional side in civil wars in Portugal and Spain. He was later a pioneering police commissioner.
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