Frederick Shaw (28 August 1847 - 24 August 1923) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the

Tasmanian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. The Assembly has 25 m ...

from 1899 to 1903, representing the electorate of

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. Shaw was born at

Swansea, Tasmania Swansea is a town in the heart of Tasmania's east coast, on the north-west shore of Great Oyster Bay and overlooking Freycinet National Park. It was the first municipality in Australia to be established after Hobart and Sydney. At the , Swansea h ...

, son of pastoralist Edward Carr Shaw, and raised on his family's property, "Red Banks". He was a Municipality of Glamorgan councillor for around twenty years, including several terms as warden, and was a long-serving justice of the peace, serving as chairman of the Glamorgan Court of General Sessions and a member of the Licensing Bench. Shaw was elected to the House of Assembly at an 1899 by-election caused by the resignation of Edward Miles. He was re-elected unopposed in 1900. The Glamorgan electorate was abolished in a 1903 redistribution, and Shaw did not contest that year's election. In later life, he suffered from partial blindness. He died at his Swansea home in 1923. His brother Bernard Shaw served as Secretary of Mines and Commissioner of Police. His sister Martha Shaw married

Premier of New South Wales The premier of New South Wales is the head of government in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Government of New South Wales follows the Westminster Parliamentary System, with a Parliament of New South Wales acting as the legislature. ...

William Lyne Sir William John Lyne KCMG (6 April 1844 – 3 August 1913) was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1899 to 1901, and later as a federal cabinet minister under Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin. He is best known ...

, becoming Lady Lyne.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shaw, Frederick 1847 births 1923 deaths Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly