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SIR NAPIER SHAW, whose death occurred on March 23, was born on March 4, 1854, in Birmingham, the son of Charles Thomas Shaw, manufacturing goldsmith and jeweller. He was the sixth child in a family of eight, four brothers and four sisters. He married in 1885 Sarah Harland, lecturer in mathematics at Newnham College and daughter of Dr. Thomas Harland of Salford.
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LEMPFERT, R. Sir Napier Shaw, F.R.S. Nature 155, 688–691 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155688a0
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