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Name: SHAW, Bernard Vidal, Sir
Nee: cousin of George Bernard Shaw
Birth Date: 28 Apr 1891 British Guiana
Death Date: 26 May 1984 Fulham, London
First Date: 1925
Profession: ADC
Area: Kisumu
Married: In Nyanza 23 Dec 1929 Katharine Ceceley Colls b. 31 Aug 1896 Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon, d. 20 July 1986 Westminster (prev. m. to Robert > Cressy)
Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, Mombasa, Hut, Colonial, Dominion, Fox Davies
School: St. Paul's School; called to bar Gray's Inn 1923
General Information:
Colonial - Editor and Collctr., Kenya Law Reports 1927-30 and Editor 1931-32
Dominion - Resident Magistrate 1930
Mombasa - President, Mombasa Sports Club in 1936 (B.V. Shaw).
Colonial - Asst. DC 1925; Res. Magistrate 1928; Relieving Pres. Dist. Ct. Palestine 1936; Pres. Dist. Ct. Palestine 1941; Puisne Judge 1945 etc.
Gazette - 1/4/1925 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Cadet, ADC - B.V. Shaw
Knighted 1957
Blue Book 1926 appt. 9.10.1925