Edward Shaw (bishop)

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Edward Domett Shaw (5 October 1860 – 5 November 1937) was an English church leader who became the first Bishop of Buckingham and later served as Archdeacon of Oxford and Assistant Bishop of Oxford.

Education and cricket
Shaw studied at St John's School, Leatherhead; Forest School, Walthamstow; and Oriel College, Oxford. As a young man he played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Middlesex.

Career in the church
In 1887 he became headmaster of Bishop’s Stortford College and was ordained in 1889. He was vicar of High Wycombe from 1894 to 1910 and Rural Dean of Wycombe from 1902. He became Archdeacon of Buckingham in 1910. In 1913 it was announced that he would be the first Bishop of Buckingham, a suffragan bishop to the Bishop of Oxford; he held that post from 1914 to 1921. In 1921 his duties were expanded to include Archdeacon of Oxford and Assistant Bishop of Oxford for the whole diocese, and he was also a residentiary canon of Christ Church. He retired in ill health in September 1936 and died in November 1937. The Times obituary noted that while his churchmanship was clear and strong, he was kind and able to see the good in others.

Family
Shaw married Agnes Gilbey in 1891, and they had ten children. Their son Edward Alfred also played first-class cricket and was killed in the First World War, as were two other sons, Bernard and Arthur. Their surviving son Robert played first-class cricket and became a Royal Navy captain, serving in the Second World War.