{{Short description|Anglican clergyman}} {{For|those of a similar name|Allanshaw|Alan Shaw (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Portal|Christianity}} ''' Charles Allan Shaw''' (16 February 1927 – 16 July 1989) was an Anglican priest in the last third of the 20th century.<ref>“Who was Who”1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}</ref>
He was born in Westhoughton, Lancashire on 16 February 1927, educated at Bolton School and Christ's College, Cambridge and ordained after a period of study at Westcott House, Cambridge in 1951.<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory'' 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}</ref>
After a curacy in Swinton he was Chaplain at Malvern College and then Vicar of St Ambrose, Pendleton, Greater Manchester<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.salfordchurch.org/St_Ambrose.html |title=Church web site |access-date=2011-01-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110127124013/http://www.salfordchurch.org/St_Ambrose.html |archive-date=2011-01-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Birmingham and Succentor of Birmingham Cathedral from 1962 to 1967 when he became Dean of Bulawayo; and from 1969 its Archdeacon. Additionally Vicar general of Matabeleland from 1972, he returned to England three years later to become Precentor of Hereford Cathedral (one of its Residentiary Canons). He was Dean of Ely for a brief period (1982–1984), but had to stand down after what a ''Daily Telegraph'' obituary referred to as "the personal problems that might arise if loneliness and frustration were combined."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Beeson|first1=Trevor|title=Priests and Prelates: The Daily Telegraph Clerical Obituaries|date=2002|publisher=Continuum|isbn=0826481000|page=48}}</ref> He was then appointed Rector of Alcester by the Marquess of Hertford until his death on 16 July 1989.<ref>"Priests and prelates : the Daily Telegraph clerical obituaries" Beeson, T.R: London Continuum, 2002 {{ISBN|0-8264-6337-1}}</ref>
He never married.
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{cite book| title = Priests and Prelates: The Daily Telegraph Clerical Obituaries- The Very Reverennd Allan Shaw|first = Trevor|last = Beeson}} Google Books
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