George Shaw (academic dress scholar)
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Dr George Wenham Shaw (usually published as "G.W.Shaw") (28 April 1928 - 27 November 2006) 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.
[edit] Bibliography
- Academical Dress of British Universities (Heffer, Cambridge, 1966)
- Cambridge University Academical Dress (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990; and with notes on Oxford academical dress 1992)
- Academical Dress of British and Irish Universities (Phillimore, Chichester, 1995)
- co-author of The Degrees and Hoods of the World's Universities and Colleges (5th edition, 1972)
- Lancing: A Pictorial history (Phillimore, London, 1982)
- compiler of Cytology, genetics and evolution (J Murray, London, 1972)
