Henry Shaw was an English

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 cricket

Cricket

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er who played for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 between 1875 and 1884.

Shaw was born in Mansfield

Mansfield

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, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

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 and worked as a painter on the Midland Railway

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. He was also cricket coach at Derby School

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. He played a non qualifying match for Derbyshire in 1874

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1874

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1874 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire earned the title of Champion County in their fourth year playing as a club. Kent joined Lancashire to make the second County side to play first class matches against Derbyshire in 1874...

 and made his first class debut in the 1875 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1875

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1875 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire played their fifth season. Nottinghamshire had played informal matches aggainst Derbyshire in previous seasons, and joined Lancashire and Kent to make a third County side playing first class matches...

 against Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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, a win for Derbyshire in which he made his top score of 22. He played two matches in the 1876 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1876

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1876 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire played their sixth season.Hampshire replaced Nottinghamshire as the third county to play Derbyshire, together with Lancashire and Kent. Derbyshire also played their first match against an MCC side, which...

 and one in the 1877 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1877

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. He played three matches in the 1878 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1878

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1878 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire played their eighth season.Nottinghamshire played Derbyshire again after a two year break, joining Yorkshire Hampshire, Lancashire and Kent as the fifth county to play Derbyshire-1878 season:In 1878,...

 and umpired two first class matches for Derbyshire. In the 1879 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1879

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1879 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire played their ninth season.Of the county sides Derbyshire played in the previous year they had matches against Lancashire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire. However they did not play Hampshire or Kent...

 he umpired one first class match and played two non status games. In the 1880 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1880

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 he played three first class matches and achieved his best bowling performance of 5 for 34 against Sussex

Sussex County Cricket Club

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. He also played three matches in the 1881 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1881

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1881 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for ten years. The team played nine first class matches and won two of them-1881 season:...

. At the time of the 1881 census he was running the New Inn public house in Stapenhill

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.

After a break, he played one further match for Derbyshire in the 1884 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1884

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 when he bowled 4 for 26 against Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

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. In 1887 he started playing for Staffordshire

Staffordshire County Cricket Club

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 for whom he appeared regularly until 1892. His name also appears in a match for Lincolnshire in 1890. He umpired four minor county matches in 1901 and in 1902 he umpired a season of first class matches. Later he umpired one match in 1908 and another in 1919.

Shaw was a right-handed batsman and played 25 innings in 14 first class matches with an average of 6.72 and a top score of 22. He was a right-arm roundarm medium pace bowler and took 10 first class wickets and an average of 15.8 and a best performance of 5 for 34.

Shaw died in Derby

Derby

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at the age of 78.