| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online |
| Place of Publication | Santa Barbara, California |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 727-741pp |
| Volume | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1999 |
Abstract
Shaw, (Charles) Thurstan (19142013), archaeologist, was born on 27 June 1914 at St Augustines Lodge, 152 Alexandra Road, Plymouth, the son of the Revd John Herbert Shaw (18751945), Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Grace Irene, née Woollatt (18861964). His father, who was vicar of Thorverton, Devon, from 1915 to 1940, was a supporter of the Church Missionary Society, so that Thurstan (as he preferred to be known) had early contact with visiting African missionaries. Educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, in his first experience of field archaeology (for four successive seasons from the age of sixteen) he was fortunate to work as a volunteer with Dorothy Liddell and William Young, two of the more innovative excavators in Britain during the years between the two world wars. He went on to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, at first reading classics but latterly archaeology and anthropology, as a student of Miles Burkitt and others, in a department where Grahame Clark and Glyn Daniel were rising stars.