Roy Shaw 1918 – 2012 and Gwenyth Shaw 1923 – 2018

 

 

My father, Roy Shaw, died on 15 May 2012, aged 93 (pictured in 1975, left, and 2011, below). Informed appreciations of his life and work can be found as follows:

• by Richard Hoggart in The Guardian, with further comments in The Guardian by Simon Hoggart (and again), Ian Searle and Paul Oestreicher, together with letters by Jane Robinson and Robert Hutchison
• by Francis Beckett in The Independent
• in The Times (paywall)
• in The Tablet

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  on the Arts Council website

There was also an obituary in the Daily Telegraph. In his final year my father wrote a partial draft of an autobiography, which was completed after his death by my mother and published privately by her under the title Catching the Rope: A Memoir of the Early Years 1918-46 (2012).

My mother, Gwenyth Shaw, died on 13 October 2018, aged 95, and I wrote her obituary in The Guardian. She also wrote an autobiography of her early life, Becoming Me: A Memoir of the Years 1923-1946, also published privately (2014). Copies of both autobiographies are available on request to m.shaw@sussex.ac.uk

 Gwen Shaw, 1946 and 2008

Exhibition, lecture and article (by Martin Shaw), University of Keele, September-October 2026:

SIR ROY SHAW: ‘THE BEST FOR THE MOST‘