David Shaw Obituary

David Shaw was a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament. He was the Conservative Member for Dover from the 1987 general election until the 1997 election when he lost the seat to Gwyn  Prosser of Labour.

He was one of the first British Members of Parliament to use the internet to communicate. At the 2001 general elections, he stood in the London constituency of Kingston and Surbiton against the Liberal Democrat MP, Edward Davey, who was defending a majority of just 56 from the election four years earlier.

Shaw was a chartered accountant and the founder, Chairman and Director, of Sabrelance Ltd, corporate finance advisers, from 1983.

Shaw married Dr Lesley Brown in 1986. They had one son, born in September 1989 and one daughter Annabel who addressed the Conservative Party Conference in 2009 at just 15 years of age.

Shaw died after a long illness on August 23, 2022, at the age of 71.