Archibald Shaw (1879-1956) was educated at Bromsgrove School, Emanuel College, Cambridge and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1903 and priest in 1904 and became curate of Walcot, Bath, Somerset. He was accepted as a Church Missionary Society missionary in 1905 and served with the Sudan Mission, initially stationed at Bor and subsequently at Malek. He was appointed Archdeacon of Southern Provinces of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1922. He retired in 1940 and he was appointed Archdeacon Emeritus by Bishop Gwynne. He died in Kenya in 1956.
Reference: Manuscript register of CMS missionaries, Men 1905-1907, in the CMS archives.
From the guide to the Papers of Archdeacon A. Shaw of the Southern Sudan, 1905-1930, (University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department)
