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George Shaw (Queensland politician) (1913–1966), member of the Australian House of Representatives George Shaw (Tasmanian politician) (born 1932), member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council George B. Shaw (1854–1894), U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
George William Shaw (28 July 1913 – 9 January 1966) was an Australian politician. He was a Country Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1963 until his death in 1966, representing the electorate of Dawson. Shaw was born in Rockhampton and was educated at Mackay High School.
George Arthur Shaw (born 15 August 1932) is a former Australian politician. He was born in Tasmania. In 1968 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent member for Macquarie. From 1982 to 1986 he was Chair of Committees, and he was elected President in 1988, serving until 1992. Shaw retired from politics in 1998. [1]
Shaw was born in Melbourne on 3 February 1916 to George Shaw, a solicitor, and his wife Ethel née Lewers. Shaw was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, where he was on the debating team, played violin in the orchestra and was awarded the Frank Grey Smith Scholarship for Classics or Modern Languages. [2]
The red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae, indigenous to Australia. Originally described by George Shaw in 1794 as a species new to science, it is one of eastern Australia's most commonly encountered snakes. Averaging around 1.25 m (4 ft 1 in) in length, it has glossy black ...
George Shaw. For service to the community. Ernest Leonard Young. For service to the community. Terence Ralph Avery. For service to the community. Robert Hilton Barratt. For services to agriculture and the community. Ellen Minnie (Nell), Mrs. Pascoe. For social welfare work.
Shaw published one of the first English descriptions with scientific names of several Australian animals in his "Zoology of New Holland" (1794).He was among the first scientists to examine a platypus and published the first scientific description of it in The Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799.
Sir George Shaw Knowles CBE (14 March 1882 – 22 November 1947) was an Australian public servant and diplomat. He served as departmental secretary of the Attorney-General's Department from 1932 to 1946, and was then the inaugural Australian High Commissioner to South Africa from 1946 until his death the following year.