Roy Edwin Shaw OBE (21 July 1925 – 4 January 2008)[1][2] was a Labour Party politician in London, England.
His academic ambitions were stalled by his father's sudden death, and Shaw left school aged 16 to work as a clerk for the tobacconist W.D.
After six weeks' basic training, he joined the Royal Armoured Corps, and in August 1944, was sent to France with a tank as a reinforcement.
"[5] Shaw joked about his service: "Army life was tough, but good training for Camden Labour Group meetings in the 1970s and 1980s.
Whilst at William Ellis, he had learnt German, and he was thus posted to Germany, where he helped to gather information on the British-Russian border.
He also served as deputy chairman and leader of the Labour Party on the London Boroughs Association.
He resigned from office in 2007 and was made the borough's first Honorary Alderman by the council in June that year, in a town hall ceremony which he was too ill to attend.
There were tributes from the then-Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell (herself a former Camden councillor), Holborn and St Pancras MP Frank Dobson and Lord Clarke of Hampstead.
[2][4] From 1978 to 1984, Shaw was a member of the Consultative Council on Local Government Finances, and he was chairman of Camden Training Centre from 1990 to 1999.
[4][7] In July 2008, Camden Council named a new call centre and computer headquarters in South End Green after Shaw.