Flora Shaw
Novelist, Author
1852 – 1929
Who was Flora Shaw?
Dame Flora Louise Shaw, Lady Lugard, DBE was a British journalist and writer. She is also known for having coined the name "Nigeria".
She was born at 2 Dundas Terrace, Woolwich, England, the fourth of fourteen children, the daughter of an English father, Captain George Shaw and a French mother, Marie Desfontaines, Marie Adrienne Josephine, née Desfontaines, of Mauritius.
She had nine sisters, the first and last dying in infancy, and four brothers. Her paternal grandfather was Sir Frederick Shaw, third baronet, of Bushy Park, Dublin, and a member of parliament from 1830 to 1848, regarded as the leader of the Irish Conservatives. Her paternal grandmother, Thomasine Emily, was the sixth daughter of the Hon. George Jocelyn, and granddaughter of Robert, first earl of Roden.
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- Born
- 1852
Woolwich - Spouses
- Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard
(1902/06 - )
- Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Lived in
- London
- Died
- Jan 25, 1929
Surrey
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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