View entry
Name: SHAW, John Verrinder CMG
Birth Date: 31 July 1911 Plymouth
Death Date: 17 Feb 1994 Cambridge
First Date: 1934
Profession: Cadet Tanganyika 1934; DO 1936; Senior 1953; Admin. Officer Cl. IIA 1955; PC 1957; Senior PC 1959-60
Married: In Tabora, Tanganyika 19 Aug 1939 Ivy 'Polly' Russell b. 25 Jan 1904 Porthleven, Cornwall, d. 23 Nov 1986 Penzance
Book Reference: Colonial
War Service: Military service 1939-48, Lieut.-Col.
School: Blundell's School and Sidney Sussex College Cambridge
General Information:
Cadet, later Assistant District Officer, in Tanganyika, 1934-1939; (King's African Rifles service, 1939-1948); District Commissioner, Mpwapwa and Dodoma, 1948-1952; Deputy Provincial Commissioner, Malya, 1952-1954, and Arusha, 1954-1957; Provincial Commissioner, Tanga, 1957-1960.
Papers in Bodleian Library, Oxford