Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Shaw, George (1)
Shaw, George, s. Timothy, of Bierton, Bucks, cler. Magdalen Hall, matric. 14 Dec., 1765, aged 12; B.A. 1769, M.A. 1772, B. & D.Med. 1787, a vice-president Linnaean Society 1788, F.R.S. 1789, librarian and assistant-keeper of Natural History, British Museum, 1791, keeper 1807, author of many works on zoology, died 22 July, 1813. See O.H.S., ix. p. 143; & Gent.'s Mag., 1813, ii. 290.