Brian Newton Shawe-Taylor (28 January 1915 – 1 May 1999) was a British racing driver. He participated in 3 World Championship Grands Prix and numerous non-Championship

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races. He scored no World Championship points. Shawe-Taylor was born in Dublin, Ireland, the younger of two sons of Francis Manley Shawe-Taylor (1869–1920), magistrate and high sheriff for the county of

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, and his wife, Agnes Mary Eleanor ''née'' Ussher (1874–1939).Warrack, John
"Taylor, Desmond Christopher Shawe- (1907–1995)"
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edition, May 2009, accessed 30 May 2010 (requires subscription) His parents were members of the Anglo-Irish ruling classes; he was related to the playwright and co-founder of the

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and a cousin of

Sir Hugh Lane Sir Hugh Percy Lane (9 November 1875 – 7 May 1915) was an Irish art dealer, collector and gallery director. He is best known for establishing Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art (the first known public gallery of modern art in the ...

who founded Dublin's gallery of modern art."Desmond Shawe-Taylor – Obituary", ''

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'', 3 November 1995 Following the murder of the father in 1920 by Irish nationalists, the family moved to England, where Shawe-Taylor attended

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. Shawe-Taylor started racing before the war, winning the Nuffield Trophy in 1939. After the war he raced an

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, with which he tried to enter the

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. The organisers deemed his car to be too old, but he managed to take part in the race anyway, by sharing the

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. The following year, he practiced a Ferrari entered by

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at the 1951 French Grand Prix, but ultimately

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drove the car during the race. His entry was accepted for the

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, despite the fact that he was still campaigning his old ERA, and he finished the race in 8th position as the top privateer, albeit six laps down on the winner. He also raced in the

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that year, sharing an

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with

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, finishing 5th. He was later seriously injured in an accident at Goodwood, when he spun the ERA and was hit by

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. Shawe-Taylor recovered but his career was ended. Shawe-Taylor was the younger brother of the music critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor, and the father of the art historian and

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, the younger Desmond Shawe-Taylor, LVO."Shawe-Taylor, Desmond Philip"
''Who's Who 2010'', A & C Black, 2010; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2009; online edition, November 2009, accessed 1 June 2010 (requires subscription)

Complete Formula One World Championship results

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