Robert Gould Shaw III | |
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Born | |
Died | 10 July 1970 London, England | (aged 71)
Education | Shrewsbury School |
Partner | Alfred Edward Goodey |
Parent(s) | Robert Gould Shaw II Nancy Witcher Langhorne |
Robert Gould Shaw III (18 August 1898 – 10 July 1970) was an American-born English socialite. He was the only child of Nancy Witcher Langhorne and Robert Gould Shaw II, a landowner and socialite. After his parents' divorce in 1903, he moved to England with his mother Nancy, who later married Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor and became the first woman in Britain to take her seat as a member of parliament.[1]