Golf - Winner of Koru GC Club Championship in 30's. He looked after and ran the Koru Course almost continuously from 1932-39. Winner of the Nyanza Open Golf Championship in 1932, 1935

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Nyanza Voters List - farmer, Koru

One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 286). No birthdate in KR records.

President of the Golf Union of EA in 1953. Won  Gillespie Cup at Thika in 1939 and 1950. Won Thika, Ruiru, Makuyu District Championship in 1948, 1950/51.

Killed pursuing a gang through a coffee plantation in the Thika District, after his car stuck in an antbear hole.

Gazette 1 Dec 1953 probate

Played rugby for Thika/Ruiru

Daily Telegraph 19 Nov 1953 George Shaw, a coffee farmer, was slashed to death by about 50 Mau Mau terrorists near his farm at Thika. Mr Shaw was the 18th European civilian in Kenya killed by Mau Mau terrorists. The gang that killed him was being pursued by a patrol of police, troops and Kikuyu guards. Early today the patrol inflicted some casualties in an exchange of shots. The terrorists had at least one automatic weapon besides shotguns and rifles. Mr Shaw and his wife Jean, who had recently returned from a holiday in Britain, saw a commotion among their coffee pickers, and he went to investigate in a car. His car ran into a hole and stuck. Terrorists, among them a number of women, turned and killed him with pangas (heavy knives). Mr Shaw came to Kenya 25 years ago from Morpeth, Northumberland. He took a big part in local government activities and was a member of the local emergency committee. He was president of the Kenya Golf Union. His children Ronald, 18, Elizabeth, 16, Nigel, 14, and William, 11, are all at school in Scotland. They were told of their father's death by telephone.