Editing Robert Shaw (actor) (section)

==Early life==
Robert Archibald Shaw was born on 9 August 1927 at 51 King Street in [[Westhoughton]], Lancashire,<ref name="plaque">{{cite news |title=Mayor to unveil plaque in honour of Jaws star |url=http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6200654.Mayor_to_unveil_plaque_in_honour_of_Jaws_star/ |date=19 July 1996 |access-date=18 June 2018 |newspaper=[[The Bolton News]] |publisher=[[Newsquest]]}}</ref><!-- in 1927 Westhoughton was then still part of Lancashire, it's now part of Greater Manchester (since 1 April 1974) --> the son of Thomas Archibald Shaw and Doreen Nora, née Avery. His father, a doctor and former [[Royal Field Artillery]] Lieutenant, was of Scottish descent; his mother, a former nurse, was born at [[Piggs Peak]], [[Swaziland]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wakeman |first1=John |author-link=John Wakeman |first2=Stanley |last2=Kunitz |author2-link=Stanley Kunitz |title=World Authors, 1950–1970: A Companion Volume to Twentieth Century Authors |url=https://archive.org/details/worldauthors195000wake |url-access=registration |publisher=Wilson |year=1975 |page=[https://archive.org/details/worldauthors195000wake/page/1292 1292] |isbn=978-0-8242-0419-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Lillian |last1=Ross |author-link=Lillian Ross (journalist) |first2=Helen |last2=Ross |title=The Player A Profile of an Art |url=https://archive.org/details/playeraprofileof002609mbp |year=1961 |publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]] |pages=472}}</ref> He had three sisters named Elisabeth, Joanna, and Wendy, and one brother named Alexander. When he was seven years old, the family moved to Scotland, settling in [[Stromness]], [[Orkney]]. His father killed himself when Shaw was 12, and the family then relocated to [[Cornwall]], where Shaw attended the independent [[Truro School]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.truroschool.com/the-spirit-of-truro-when-truro-school-built-an-aeroplane/ |title=The "Spirit of Truro" – When Truro School Built an Aeroplane |date=11 June 2015 |access-date=25 April 2019 |work=[[Truro School]]}}</ref> For a brief period, he was a teacher at Glenhow Preparatory School in [[Saltburn-by-the-Sea]] in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]], before attending the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] in London, graduating in 1948.<ref>{{cite news |title=Robert Shaw |url=https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/robert-shaw/ |access-date=8 May 2020 |agency=RADA}}</ref>