Memorials of the Clan Shaw

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services in Ireland against the rebel troops, both General Ponsonby
and Captain Shaw, obtained grants of forfeited lands in Kilkenny
and Tipperary. When General Ponsonby was wounded at the
Battle of the Boyne, Captain Shaw carried him off the field. Capt.
Shaw's great-grandson, Robert Shaw, sat in the Irish Parliament
for New Ross, and voted against the Union. He represented
Dublin in the Imperial Parliament from 1804 to 1826, and was
created a Baronet in 1821. His son, the late Sir Robert, was dis-
tinguished as a scholar at Trinity College, Dublin. The Irish
newspapers in noticing his death (which happened on the 19th
February, 1869) all spoke of him in the most eulogistic terms, as
a " patriotic citizen of Dublin, an indefatigable friend to the poor,
and a most amiable, and in every way an excellent man." The
present writer can only say, that he had come to the same conclu-
sion as to his character, from his letters, before he had heard it
from others. Nothing could exceed the kindness and the hearty
zeal with which he entered into the subject of the Memorials of his
Clan; and as the leading Inverness-shire paper remarked in re-
cording his death — " He had a warm side to the ' Tartan ' and to
his ancestral country."
His brother, Sir Frederick — present Baronet and Rocorder of
Dublin — has, I am glad to say, taken up the subject no less warmly.
Sir Frederick was M.P. for the city, and afterwards for the Uni-
versity of Dublin. He was legal adviser to the late Conservative
Government, and (as a fellow-Clansman, Sheriff Shaw, Lochmaddy
— who was unaware until recently of his ancestral connection with
Scotland — writes to me) — one of the most formidable opponents
who ever entered the lists in debate, against the late Daniel
O'Connell. Sir Frederick Shaw married Thomasine Emily, grand-
daughter of Robert, first Earl of Roden.
The above was written in an Appendix to Part I. of Memorials
in 1869.
It will have been noticed, that the documents which have since
come into my possession, all point to the tradition of a migration,
of Shaws of the Rothiemurchus stock to Ireland. The same tra-