George Shaw (academic dress scholar)
- George Shaw (academic dress scholar)
Dr George Wenham Shaw (usually published as "G.W.Shaw") (28 April 1928 - 27 November 2006) was a biologist and leading British expert on academic dress. He designed the academic robes for the University of Bath UK, Trent University, Ontario and Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela.
Shaw was also a patron of the Burgon Society.
Bibliography
*"Academical Dress of British Universities" (Heffer, Cambridge, 1966)
*"Cambridge University Academical Dress" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990; and "with notes on Oxford academical dress" 1992)
*"Academical Dress of British and Irish Universities" (Phillimore, Chichester, 1995)
*co-author of "The Degrees and Hoods of the World's Universities and Colleges" (5th edition, 1972)
*"Lancing: A Pictorial history" (Phillimore, London, 1982)
*compiler of "Cytology, genetics and evolution" (J Murray, London, 1972)
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