Robert Gould Shaw III
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Robert Gould Shaw III (1898-1970) was the only son of Nancy Langhorne (later Nancy Astor) and her first husband Robert Gould Shaw II, who was a cousin of Robert Gould Shaw of Fort Wagner fame.
Shaw's birth father had a limited role in his life at best. Shaw III was educated at Shrewsbury School. He briefly served in the Life Guards but his increasing alcoholism caused difficulty.
He had long had suicidal tendencies and his life mostly went adrift from an early point. His alcoholism, the Profumo Affair, his mother's death, and the death of his half-brother William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor may have increased his suicidal tendencies.
In 1970 he committed suicide.
