Personality and Appearance
During the siege of Oporto, a British resident described Shaw as ‘A fervid Liberal of the old Covenanter type ... fired by Dom Pedro’s anti-absolutist crusades’. A British volunteer was amused by the Portuguese soldiers' long beards, but Shaw’s ‘quite eclipsed all of them, being of enormous length, and as fiery in appearance as the tail of a comet’. No likeness of Shaw appears to have survived.
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