Charles Shawe

{{short description|English cricketer}}

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| fullname = Charles Shawe

| birth_date = 15 November 1878

| birth_place = Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England

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| death_place = Witham Friary, Somerset, England

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| date = 26 July

| year = 2019

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/20708.html Cricinfo

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Charles Shawe (15 November 1878 – 9 February 1951) was an English first-class cricketer.

The son of Henry Cunliffe Shawe and his wife, Georgina Wilmot Gresley, he was born at Weddington Hall in Warwickshire.{{cite web|url=http://thepeerage.com/p63244.htm#i632433 |title=Charles Shawe |publisher=www.thepeerage.com |accessdate=2019-07-26}} Shawe attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, graduating into the Rifle Brigade as a second lieutenant in 1898. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in April 1900,{{London Gazette|issue=27196|date=25 May 1900|page=3338}} with promotion to the rank of captain coming in April 1904.{{London Gazette|issue=27704|date=12 August 1904|page=5216}} He was seconded for service as aide-de-camp to General Lyttelton in May 1908.{{London Gazette|issue=28137|date=15 May 1908|page=3578}} He later served as the aide-de-camp to Arthur Foljambe, 2nd Earl of Liverpool in November 1912.{{London Gazette|issue=28673|date=20 December 1912|page=9697}} He retired from active service in November 1913, at which point he was transferred to the Reserve of Officers.{{London Gazette|issue=28776|date=25 November 1913|page=8503}} Shawe returned to active service during the First World War, serving on the general staff.{{London Gazette|issue=29328|date=15 October 1915|page=10155}}

Shawe later made a single appearance in first-class cricket for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI against Oxford University at Eastbourne in 1919.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32711/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Charles Shawe |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-26 |url-access=subscription}} Batting once in the match, Shawe was dismissed without scoring in the H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI first-innings by Frederic Waldock, while in the Oxford second-innings he bowled two overs, which conceded 32 runs.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9599.html |title=HDG Leveson-Gower's XI v Oxford University, 1919 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-26 |url-access=subscription}} He died in February 1951 at Witham Friary, Somerset.