George Shaw
Academic dress scholar
Died when: 78 years 213 days (942 months)Star Sign: Taurus
George Wenham Shaw (usually published as "G.W.Shaw") (28 April 1928, in Stalybridge, Cheshire – 27 November 2006, in Grantchester) was a biologist and leading British expert on academic dress.
He designed the academic robes for the University of Bath UK, Trent University, Ontario and Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela.
Shaw was also a patron of the Burgon Society, who are responsible for publishing a third, posthumous, edition of Shaw's Academical Dress.
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