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| | Charles Shaw (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Charles Shaw, the sixth of eight children of Enoch Shaw, painter and gilder, of Piccadilly Street, Tunstall, by Ann nee Mawdesley, was born between 5 and 11 August 1832. |
 | | Shaw later wrote vividly and movingly of his experiences in the workhouse (in his book "When I was a Child), and this and the other events in his early life were used by Arnold Bennett in his novel Clayhanger. |
 | | In 1868-9 Charles Shaw was prominent in support of the movement to disestablish the Irish Church, invited to become pastor of the Congregational chapel in Nile Street, Burslem. |
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