Marriage and Children
Shaw was married to Mary Grace Shaw, born in 1881, who survived him until 1954. He was the father of six children, including the actor Sebastian Shaw (1905–1994), best known for the role of Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi. His other children were James, Peter, Susan, Margaret and Penelope. James, like his father a chorister of St Paul's Cathedral, read History at Caius, his father's Cambridge college, and was killed during the Second World War. Penelope Shaw became an actress. One of Shaw's great-grandchildren, Emma Bonner-Morgan, is a singer-songwriter and pianist.
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