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Dr Peter Shaw


(b. 1694, Lichfield, Staffordshire – d. March 15, 1763, London, England )

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Peter Shaw (1694–1763), physician and author, was born in March 1694 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, the youngest of the four children of Robert Shaw (c.1650–1704), master of Lichfield grammar school, and his wife, Ann (b. c.1658).

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