Best-Shaw baronets

The Shaw, later Best-Shaw Baronetcy, of Eltham in the County of Kent, is a title in the Baronetage of England.

It was created on 15 April 1665 for Sir John Shaw, Commissioner of the Customs 1660–62 and Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis 1661–79.

[1] Descended from the Shaws of Haslington Hall, Cheshire, he was a supporter of Charles I during the Civil War and provided financial support to the exiled Charles II, by whom he was knighted following the English Restoration in 1660.

His son, the ninth Baronet, assumed in 1956 by Royal licence the additional surname of Best.

Charles Shaw (1785–1829), second son of the fifth Baronet and father of the seventh Baronet, was a captain in the Royal Navy The heir apparent is the present holder's eldest son Joshua John Kirkland Best-Shaw (born 1995).