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Brian Shaw (shipping executive)

British businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ96373944 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sir Brian Piers Shaw (21 March 1933 – 5 February 2011) was a British executive who served as chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping (1987–1992), the president of the General Council of British Shipping (1985–1986), and the chairman of the AA during its demutualisation and sale to Centrica in 1998. Shaw was knighted in 1986.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Brian Shaw (shipping executive)” is british businessman. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Brian, Shaw and shipping, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933, 2011, 1987, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1933-03-21. For this dossier, Brian, Shaw and shipping is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q96373944. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1933, 2011, 1987 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Brian Shaw (shipping executive)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.