Colonel Sir Archibald Douglas McInnes Shaw, DSO (15 March 1895 – 10 June 1957)[1] was a Scottish soldier, businessman and Unionist Party politician.
[2] He joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers when World War I broke out in 1914, and was twice mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).
[4] However, just before nominations closed on 18 October, he withdrew in order to give the sitting Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP), former Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, a straight fight with the Labour Party candidate.
[4] His withdrawal from Paisley opened the way for a wider pact between Liberals and Conservatives across Scotland,[4][5] and Shaw was promptly nominated in Western Renfrewshire.
[4][5] He defeated the sitting Labour MP Robert Murray, becoming the MP for Western Renfrewshire for the next five years,[6] but did not defend the seat at the 1929 general election,[7] telling his local Unionist Association that his decision was for business reasons.