John Valentine Wistar Shaw KCMG (14 February 1894 – 24 December 1982) was a British colonial administrator. Born in Derby on 14 February 1894, Shaw was...
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Carolina John Valentine Wistar Shaw (1894–1982), British colonial administrator John Shawe or Shaw (1608–1672), English Puritan minister John Shaw (bishop)...
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1944 John Valentine Wistar Shaw (acting) 30 August 1944 31 October 1944 Field Marshal The Viscount Gort 31 October 1944 5 November 1945 John Valentine Wistar...
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same order. In 1949 he was made a Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John. On 1 October 1948, Gurney was appointed High Commissioner to Malaya. Gurney...
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Holmes, Army major-general and tennis player (born 1891) Sir John Valentine Wistar Shaw, colonial administrator (born 1894) 26 December – Leslie Fox,...
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Hubert Rance (1862 – 29 March 1942) and his wife Minnie Florence Eleanor nee Shaw (1871–1964). Rance was educated at Wimbledon College, In Q1 1927 in Hastings...
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in sparsely populated areas. The 1946 Survey of Palestine by John Valentine Wistar Shaw described the change from mawat lands: "Nowadays, the development...
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replace the striking workers. Chief Secretary of the Mandate John Valentine Wistar Shaw met with the strike leaders for the first time on 18 April. The...
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ranks of the Metropolitan Police. Simpson's brother-in-law Sir John Valentine Wistar Shaw had been Governor and Commander in Chief of Trinidad and Tobago...
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– 1947 Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford 7 March 1947 – 1950 Sir John Valentine Wistar Shaw 19 April 1950 – 1955 Sir Hubert Elvin Rance 23 June 1955 – 1960...
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