John Shaw Lefevre
Sir John George Shaw Lefevre
Whig
politician and civil servant.
Career
Shaw Lefevre was the son of
He was returned to Parliament for
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
(KCB) in 1857 for his public services.
Marriage and family
Shaw Lefevre married Rachel Emily, daughter of Ichabod Wright, in 1824. They had one surviving son,
Somerville Hall; another daughter, Rachel, married Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, son of the Prime Minister the 4th Earl of Aberdeen
.
Shaw Lefevre died in August 1879, aged 82. His wife lived for six more years before dying in February 1885.
Legacy
The Lefevre Peninsula in South Australia, was named by Governor John Hindmarsh on 3 June 1837 after Shaw Lefevre, who was one of South Australia's Colonisation Commissioners.[3]
In 1880, Lady Shaw Lefevre presented his library of Russian books to the
University of London Library.[4]
References
- ^ "Shaw-Lefevre, John George (SHW811JG)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Library and Archive catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ PlaceNames Online - South Australian State Gazetteer Archived 17 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Site is a searchable database. Accessed 13 March 2012.
- ^ "University of London: the Historical Record (1836-1926)". British History Online. University of London Press, 1926. Retrieved 1 April 2023.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 10.