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John Byam Liston Shaw was the son of John Shaw and his wife, Sophia Alicia Byam Gunthorpe.  In 1899 Byam Shaw married the artist Evelyn Caroline Eunice Pyke-Nott, later known as Evelyn CE Shaw (1870–1959).<ref name=oup1>{{Citation |url= http://www.answers.com/topic/byam-shaw |contribution= Byam Shaw family |title= OUP Art Encyclopedia |publisher= Answers}}.</ref> Evelyn's sister was [[Isabel Codrington]], another early twentieth century artist. Byam Shaw came from an Ayrshire family of lawyers and clerics. The Ayrshire Shaws were a cadet branch of the Shaws of Tordarroch, chiefs of the [[Clan Shaw of Tordarroch|Clan Shaw]]. Byam Shaw's forebears included the two reverend Shaws (father and son) referred to in [[Robert Burns|Burns]]' "Twa Herds".<ref>Dr. Andrew Shaw of Craigie, and Dr. David Shaw of Coylton – A History of Clan Shaw, by Major C.J. [[Clan Shaw of Tordarroch|Shaw of Tordarroch]]. Phillimore & Co., Ltd. Sussex 1983, {{ISBN|978-0850333855}}.</ref> Evelyn's family, the Pyke-Notts, were gentry from [[Swimbridge]] and [[Parracombe]] in North Devon.<ref>A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland by [[Bernard Burke|Sir Bernard Burke]]</ref>
John Byam Liston Shaw was the son of John Shaw and his wife, Sophia Alicia Byam Gunthorpe.  In 1899 Byam Shaw married the artist Evelyn Caroline Eunice Pyke-Nott, later known as Evelyn CE Shaw (1870–1959).<ref name=oup1>{{Citation |url= http://www.answers.com/topic/byam-shaw |contribution= Byam Shaw family |title= OUP Art Encyclopedia |publisher= Answers}}.</ref> Evelyn's sister was [[Isabel Codrington]], another early twentieth century artist. Byam Shaw came from an Ayrshire family of lawyers and clerics. The Ayrshire Shaws were a cadet branch of the Shaws of Tordarroch, chiefs of the [[Clan Shaw of Tordarroch|Clan Shaw]]. Byam Shaw's forebears included the two reverend Shaws (father and son) referred to in [[Robert Burns|Burns]]' "Twa Herds".<ref>Dr. Andrew Shaw of Craigie, and Dr. David Shaw of Coylton – A History of Clan Shaw, by Major C.J. [[Clan Shaw of Tordarroch|Shaw of Tordarroch]]. Phillimore & Co., Ltd. Sussex 1983, {{ISBN|978-0850333855}}.</ref> Evelyn's family, the Pyke-Notts, were gentry from [[Swimbridge]] and [[Parracombe]] in North Devon.<ref>A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland by [[Bernard Burke|Sir Bernard Burke]]</ref>


The couple had five children including the actor and theatre director [[Glen Byam Shaw]] and the art historian James 'Jim' Byam Shaw.<ref name=JIM>{{Citation|url=http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/shawj.htm|format=biography|contribution=Jim Byam Shaw|title=Dictionary of art Historians|access-date=19 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127185311/http://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/shawj.htm#|archive-date=27 November 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}.</ref> Their only daughter, Barbara, married [[Anthony Follett Pugsley|Rear-Admiral A.F. Pugsley]].  Another son, David, a naval officer and destroyer captain, awarded the OBE, was killed at sea during World War II whilst in command of [[HMS Stanley]],<ref>https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35495/supplement/1317/data.pdf {{Bare URL inline|date=December 2021}}</ref> and George, a major in the [[Royal Scots]], was killed at [[Battle of Dunkirk|Dunkirk]] in 1940<ref>Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore {{ISBN|0141024372}}</ref> whilst second-in-command of the 1st Battalion. The family is depicted in the artist's semi-autobiographical [[pastel]] painting ''My Wife, My Bairns and My Wee Dog John'' (1903).<ref name=barringer/>
The couple had five children including the actor and theatre director [[Glen Byam Shaw]] and the art historian James 'Jim' Byam Shaw.<ref name=JIM>{{Citation|url=http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/shawj.htm|format=biography|contribution=Jim Byam Shaw|title=Dictionary of art Historians|access-date=19 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127185311/http://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/shawj.htm#|archive-date=27 November 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}.</ref> Their only daughter, Barbara, married [[Anthony Follett Pugsley|Rear-Admiral A.F. Pugsley]].  Another son, David, a naval officer and destroyer captain, awarded the OBE, was killed at sea during World War II whilst in command of [[HMS Stanley]],<ref>https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35495/supplement/1317/data.pdf {{Bare URL PDF |date=December 2021}}</ref> and George, a major in the [[Royal Scots]], was killed at [[Battle of Dunkirk|Dunkirk]] in 1940<ref>Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore {{ISBN|0141024372}}</ref> whilst second-in-command of the 1st Battalion. The family is depicted in the artist's semi-autobiographical [[pastel]] painting ''My Wife, My Bairns and My Wee Dog John'' (1903).<ref name=barringer/>


==Life and work==
==Life and work==