death_date death_place children birth_place nationality birth_date spouse image article_title name occupation
27 november 2006 grantchester , united kingdom two sons , two daughters stalybridge , united kingdom british 28 april 1928 mary shaw george w shaw.jpg george shaw -lrb- academic dress scholar -rrb-
 george shaw biologist , scholar of academic dress
george shaw -lrb- academic dress scholar -rrb-

dr george wenham shaw -lrb- usually published as `` g.w. shaw '' -rrb- -lrb- 28 april 1928 , stalybridge , cheshire -- 27 november 2006 , grantchester -rrb- 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 '' .
