Charles Shaw

Charles was born in London’s Drury Lane in 1944 and was brought up in a well travelled and artistic family who subsequently moved to Sussex, where he spent much of his childhood.

He trained as a physician at Middlesex Hospital where he became the editor of the hospital journal and a prolific writer for the much loved Middlesex Christmas concert. After a variety of posts he spent six years as medical director of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Bermuda. It was on a brief trip home that he met Carolyn and so began a trans-Atlantic …