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HIS LIFE
1856-July 26--George Bernard Shaw, born at Dublin,third
and last child and only son of George Carr Shaw, for many
years an old-style civil servant, and of Lucinda Elizabeth,
daughter of Walter Bagnal Gurly, country gentleman of
Carlow. Educated when quite a small boy by his clerical
uncle, the Rev. William George Carroll, Vicar of St Brides,
Dublin, the first Protestant Parson in Ireland to declare for
Home Rule; later sent to a Wesleyan Connexional School
(afterwards Wesley College), Stephen's Green.
1871--Entered Land Agency office as clerk, in the employ of
Mr Charles Uniacke Townshend.
1879--Employed in London by City firm to exploit Edison's
telephone, his "last sin against nature".
1879--Joined Zetetical Debating Society.
1884--Joined Fabian Society and elected to Executive.
1885--Appointed through agency of William Archer to the
reviewing staff of the Pall Mall Gazette.
1886-87--Art critic to the World under Edmund Yates.
1888--Lectured to the Economic section of the British As-
sociation at Bath.
1888-90--Music critic to the Star as "Corno di Bassetto".
1890-94--Music critic to the World in succession to Louis
Engel.
1895-98--Dramatic critic to the Saturday Review.
1897-1903--Vestryman and Borough Councillor, St Pancras.
1898--Married Miss Charlotte Frances Payne Townshend.
1904--Progressive candidate L.C.C., St Pancras; defeated.
1909--Gave evidence before Select Committee on licensing of
plays.
1911--Elected Academic Committee, Royal Society of Lit-
erature.
1926--Awarded Nobel prize for literature; made arrange-
ments for money to be funded and the annual proceeds used
to encourage intercourse and understanding in literature
and art, between Sweden and the British Isles, through a
Society to be known as the Anglo-Swedish Literary Founda-
tion.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Dictionary to the Plays and Novels of Bernard Shaw. Contributors: Violet M. Broad - author, C. Lewis Broad - author. Publisher: A. & C. Black. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1929. Page Number: 2.
    
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