Old Africa - 19-9-16 - Christine Nicholls re his father.

Mrs R. Robbins - JC Shaw did indeed have two children (Nancy and Jim), sadly now both deceased (I have never heard of another sister). Nancy died a few years ago and Jim died on 18th June 2014, aged 92. Jim was happily married to his lovely wife Jill (from Birkenhead), who died in 2012.

They are survived by their own two children (David (68 I think) and Fiona (66 I think). Both David and Fiona still live in Karen – and Fiona (married to Rob de Boer) is still in the five-acre Karen plot that Jim bought at the end of the war. Both have children who were at school in Nairobi, so a true Kenya family / dynasty. Jim was educated at the Prince of Wales School (now Nairobi School). He was a great friend of my own father John McKellar and, as early air traffic controllers, they were instrumental in the building of the original air traffic control centre at Wilson Airport. Jim was a wonderful, gentle man and played golf at Karen Country Club for most of his life in Nairobi. He taught me to play, when my school (Duke of York) built a golf course in the school grounds (1964, I believe). Jim was also a Freemason and attended Lodge meetings regularly. He was a good rugby player – Nondies, I think. Jim’s sister Nancy was married to AJ Miller (who ran Phoenix Insurance, I believe). As a result, Jim worked for many years in the insurance business in Nairobi.