Thomas Claye Shaw (1841–1927)

Mental health practitioner. MD, London, 1867. Assistant medical officer, Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum; medical superintendent, Metropolitan Asylum, Leavesden, Hertfordshire, and London County Asylum, Banstead. Lecturer, psychological medicine, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. Examiner in mental physiology and psychological medicine, University of London. Wrote a number of papers on aspects of mental illness.

Sources

England & Wales christening records, 1530–1906 (Ancestry.com, accessed 28 March 2013)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations) 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 28 March 2013)

Medical directory, 1874, 1926.