Charles Shaw-Lefevre born Charles Shaw, was a British Whig politician.

Shaw-Lefevre was the son of Reverend George Shaw, Rector of Womersley

Womersley

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, Yorkshire

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, by his wife Mary, daughter of Edward Green. He was called to the Bar

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, Lincoln's Inn

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. He sat as Member of Parliament

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 for Newtown (Isle of Wight)

Newtown (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1796 to 1802 and for Reading

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 from 1802 to 1820. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 1796.

Shaw-Lefevre married Helena, daughter of John Lefevre, in 1789, and assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Lefevre. They lived at Heckfield

Heckfield

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 Place in Hampshire and their children included Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley

Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley

Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley GCB, PC , was a British Whig politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1839 to 1857...

, Speaker of the House of Commons

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, and Sir John Shaw-Lefevre. Shaw-Lefevre died in April 1823, aged 63. His wife survived him by eleven years and died in August 1834.