Vero Kemball Shaw (14 January 1854 – 18 December 1905) was an Indian-born English

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Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

and

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in 34 matches between 1875 and 1878. He was born at

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in India and died at

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. Late in life he added the name "Mackenzie" to his surname, as his father had also done.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 487–488.
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. Retrieved 8 August 2022.) Shaw was educated at

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and at

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. He matriculated at

in the autumn of 1872 and appeared in trial matches for the university cricket team in both 1873 and 1874, without being selected for any first-class matches. In 1875, he fared better and was picked as a right-handed lower-order batsman and a left-arm fast bowler in the round-arm style for three Cambridge first-class matches, but with little success: he had been discarded from the Cambridge team long before the 1875 University Match, for which he was not selected. He had much greater success at the end of the 1875 season in a few games for Kent, however. Kent's game against

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finished with Lancashire being set just 18 to win in their second innings; Shaw opened the bowling and took four wickets for 11 runs, the best bowling figures of his first-class career, so that Lancashire won, but only by a margin of five wickets. In the next game he hit 54 when opening the batting against the weak

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side. The 1876 season saw Shaw as a regular member of the Cambridge University side, employed as a lower-order batsman and a change bowler used as economical relief to the main bowling attack. He played in the 1876 University Match against

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, bowling in each Oxford innings, though failing to take a wicket, and scoring 0 in his only batting innings; Cambridge, however, won the match by nine wickets. Playing for Kent later in the same season and opening the batting once more, he made a score of 74 against

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which was his highest first-class score. Shaw graduated from Cambridge with a

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degree in 1876. He continued to play first-class cricket in occasional games for Kent in 1877 and 1878, but with little success. He became chief of the

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, sometimes called "Clan Ay", changed his name to "Shaw-Mackenzie" as his father had also done, and became a

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. He did not marry, and was succeeded as clan chief by his brother.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shaw, Vero 1854 births 1905 deaths English cricketers Kent cricketers Cambridge University cricketers People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge British people in colonial India