Robert Gould Shaw

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</div><div>Robert Gould Shaw II (sometimes referred to as RGS II) (June 16, 1872 — March 29, 1930) was a wealthy landowner, international polo player of the Myopia Hunt Club [Biographical History of Massachusetts, Eliot, Vol. IX] and socialite of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class" title="The Theory of the Leisure Class" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">leisure class</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Boston" title="Greater Boston" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">greater Boston</a> area of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Massachusetts</a>. He was one of the prominent figures of the boom years at the turn of the century, sometimes called the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age" title="Gilded Age" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Gilded Age</a>.Born in 1872 into one of the wealthiest and most <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Brahmin" title="Boston Brahmin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">influential families</a> in Boston, he was a first cousin of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw" title="Robert Gould Shaw" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert Gould Shaw</a> (called RGS). As an adult, RGS II gained a reputation for alcohol abuse and promiscuity. His first wife was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Astor,Viscountess_Astor" title="Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nancy Witcher Langhorne</a>, and they had a son, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_III" title="Robert Gould Shaw III" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert Gould Shaw III</a> (called RGS III or "Bobby"). RGS II and Langhorne divorced after four years of marriage. She moved to England after some time, where she met and married <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_Astor,2nd_Viscount_Astor" title="Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Waldorf Astor</a>, who later succeeded his father as Viscount.RGS II married again and had another son, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz_Shaw_II" title="Louis Agassiz Shaw II" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Louis Agassiz Shaw II</a>. Both of his sons suffered from depression, alcoholism, and legal difficulties. Bobby was arrested in England for homosexuality; he eventually committed suicide in 1970. Louis Agassiz Shaw II murdered his 60-year-old maid in 1964; was adjudged unfit for trial and was remanded instead to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLean_Hospital" title="McLean Hospital" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">psychiatric hospital</a>, where he resided for nearly the rest of his life.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-Beam2001-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#Family_and_early_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Family and early life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#First_marriage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2First marriage</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#Second_marriage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Second marriage</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#Death_and_legacy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Death and legacy</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#In_popular_culture" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5In popular culture</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Family and early life[</h2><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation" style="margin: 0px 153.368px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(242, 133, 0); border-image: initial; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image" style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.5em; text-align: center;"><div style="width: 52px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; width: 1009.34px;"><div class="mbox-text-span">
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<div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quincy_Adams_Shaw.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quincy_Adams_Shaw.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none">Quincy Adams Shaw, father of RGS II</a></div></div></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quincy_Adams_Shaw.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none">RGS II was the youngest child of </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Adams_Shaw" title="Quincy Adams Shaw" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Quincy Adams</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Adams_Shaw" title="Quincy Adams Shaw" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> Shaw</a> and Pauline Agassiz. Quincy was one of the wealthiest men in Massachusetts as a result of his investment in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calumet_and_Hecla_Mining_Company" title="Calumet and Hecla Mining Company" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Calumet and Hecla Mining Company</a>. RGS II's four older siblings were Louis, Pauline, Marian, and Quincy Jr.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-MFA1918-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> His father's side of the family had Anglo-American roots extending back to passengers on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower" title="Mayflower" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mayflower</a>. His paternal grandparents were Robert Gould Shaw (1776—1853) and Elizabeth Willard Parkman (1785—1853). His maternal grandfather was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz" title="Louis Agassiz" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Louis Agassiz</a> (1807—1873), a prominent paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist, and scholar of the Earth's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_history" title="Natural history" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">natural history</a> who immigrated from Switzerland in 1846.A granduncle was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Parkman" title="George Parkman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">George Parkman</a> (1790—1849), a murder victim in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkman%E2%80%93Webster_murder_case" title="Parkman–Webster murder case" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">a highly publicized case</a> that shook the city of Boston to its core in 1849—1850, due to the gruesome nature of the crime and the high social station of both the victim and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_White_Webster" title="John White Webster" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">the murderer</a>. His first cousin (once removed) was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Parkman" title="Francis Parkman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Francis Parkman, Jr.</a> (1823—1893), a noted American historian and author of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail:Sketches_of_Prairie_and_Rocky-Mountain_Life" title="The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Oregon Trail</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail:Sketches_of_Prairie_and_Rocky-Mountain_Life" title="The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-MFA1918-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-Parkman1849-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> A paternal uncle was Francis George Shaw (October 23, 1809—November 7, 1882), an outspoken advocate of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_States" title="Abolitionism in the United States" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">abolition of slavery</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-NYTimes1882-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-shawletter-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> A maternal uncle was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Emanuel_Agassiz" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Emanuel Agassiz" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Alexander Emanuel Agassiz</a> (1835—1910), who served as president of Calumet and Hecla Mining Company from 1871–1910, as well as president of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="National Academy of Sciences" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">National Academy of Sciences</a> (1901—1907). His cousin <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolphe_L.Agassiz" title="Rodolphe L. Agassiz" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Rodolphe Louis Agassiz</a> (1871—1933) was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polo_handicap#Ten-goal_players" title="Polo handicap" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">ten goal polo champion</a> who later became chairman of the board of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-obit-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a> His cousin <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Shaw_Lowell" title="Josephine Shaw Lowell" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Josephine Shaw</a> (1843—1905) was married to Brigadier General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Russell_Lowell" title="Charles Russell Lowell" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Charles Russell Lowell III</a>, who was killed at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cedar_Creek" title="Battle of Cedar Creek" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Battle of Cedar Creek</a>. His nephew <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz_Shaw,Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Louis Agassiz Shaw, Jr." style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Louis Agassiz Shaw, Jr.</a> (1886—1940) was a professor of physiology at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Medical_School" title="Harvard Medical School" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Harvard Medical School</a> and co-inventor of the first widely used <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_pressure_ventilator" title="Negative pressure ventilator" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">iron lung</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-Sherwood1973-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-Gorham1979-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-OSHHarvard-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-Lehigh-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">First marriage[</h2><div class="thumb tmulti tright" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: right; float: right;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; display: flex; flex-direction: column; width: 288px; max-width: 288px;"><div class="trow" style="display: flex; flex-flow: row wrap; clear: left; width: 287.986px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="tsingle" style="margin: 1px; float: left; width: 133px; max-width: 133px;"><div class="thumbimage" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209);">
</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="margin: 1px; float: left; width: 151px; max-width: 151px;"><div class="thumbimage" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Gould_Shaw_III.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Robert_Gould_Shaw_III.jpg/149px-Robert_Gould_Shaw_III.jpg" decoding="async" width="149" height="203" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Robert_Gould_Shaw_III.jpg/224px-Robert_Gould_Shaw_III.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Robert_Gould_Shaw_III.jpg/298px-Robert_Gould_Shaw_III.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1177" data-file-height="1600" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display: flex; flex-flow: row wrap; clear: left; width: 287.986px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left; background-color: transparent;">Nancy Witcher Langhorne (left), first wife of RGS II, and their son Robert Gould Shaw III (right)</div></div></div></div>On October 27, 1897, RGS II married Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879—1964) in New York City. She was the 18-year-old daughter of railroad millionaire <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiswell_Langhorne" title="Chiswell Langhorne" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chiswell Dabney Langhorne</a> and Nancy Witcher Keene. They had one son, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_III" title="Robert Gould Shaw III" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert Gould Shaw III</a> (August 18, 1898 — July 10, 1970).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-CAG2011-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a>The marriage was unhappy for both RGS II and Nancy. RGS II's friends accused Nancy of being <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan" class="mw-redirect" title="Puritan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">puritanical</a> and rigid, while Nancy's friends contended that RGS II was an alcoholic<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-SykesCh4-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a> and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuity" title="Promiscuity" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">womanizer</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-Marlowe1982-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a> Nancy left RGS II numerous times during their brief marriage, the first time during their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeymoon" title="Honeymoon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">honeymoon</a>. In 1903, Nancy's mother died and she divorced RGS II,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-Cokayne2000-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-thepeerage-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a> returning to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirador(Greenwood,Virginia)" title="Mirador (Greenwood, Virginia)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mirador</a>, her childhood home.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-Mirador-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a>In 1905, while a passenger on a trans-Atlantic ship to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" title="England" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">England</a>, the recently divorced Nancy met <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_Astor,2nd_Viscount_Astor" title="Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Waldorf Astor</a>, eldest son of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Waldorf_Astor,1st_Viscount_Astor" class="mw-redirect" title="William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">William Waldorf Astor</a> and Mary Dahlgren Paul of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_family" title="Astor family" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Astor family</a>. The couple were married in May 1906, settling in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliveden" title="Cliveden" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Cliveden</a>, a present from his father and the Astor family estate in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taplow" title="Taplow" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Taplow</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckinghamshire" title="Buckinghamshire" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Buckinghamshire</a>, England.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-SykesCh5-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a> In 1919, Nancy ran for Parliament and won, becoming the first woman to sit as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Member of Parliament</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">House of Commons</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-Haverty1988-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a>After his ex-wife and son moved to England, RGS II had a limited role in his son Bobby's life.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-Marlowe1982-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Second marriage[</h2>RGS II married Mary Hannington and they had four sons, Gould Shaw, George Alexander Shaw, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz_Shaw_II" title="Louis Agassiz Shaw II" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Louis Agassiz Shaw II</a> (c. 1906—c. 1987) and Paul Agassiz Shaw (1912-1983)[Biographical History of Massachusetts, Eliot, Vol. IX]. RGS II purchased a tract of land in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Hill,Massachusetts" title="Oak Hill, Massachusetts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oak Hill</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton,Massachusetts" title="Newton, Massachusetts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Newton</a>, shortly after the death of its owner, William Sumner Appleton (1840—1903), father of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sumner_Appleton" title="William Sumner Appleton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">William Sumner Appleton, Jr.</a>). He commissioned Boston architect James Lovell Little, Jr. to design and construct several buildings on the property, including outbuildings of a carriage house and horse stable in 1910,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-HolbrookHall-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a> a cow barn in 1912,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-HalldenASC-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a> and a primary residence (the Appleton/Shaw House) in 1912.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-ShawHall-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Death and legacy[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Gould_Shaw_II&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Death and legacy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="thumb tright" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: right; float: right;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;">
<div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Gould_Shaw_II_as_Little_Billie_from_George_du_Maurier%27s_Trilby_by_R.G.Harper_Pennington.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Gould_Shaw_II_as_Little_Billie_from_George_du_Maurier%27s_Trilby_by_R.G.Harper_Pennington.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none">Robert Gould Shaw II as "Little Billee" from the novel Trilby</a></div></div></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Gould_Shaw_II_as_Little_Billie_from_George_du_Maurier%27s_Trilby_by_R.G.Harper_Pennington.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none">As the Gilded Age gave way to the </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era" title="Progressive Era" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Progressive Era</a> and eventually the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Great Depression</a>, the Shaw fortune collapsed. RGS II died in 1930. The vacant and decaying Shaw estate in Newton was sold in 1939 to Dr. William Fitts Carlson. Carlson used the property as the new campus for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ida_College" title="Mount Ida College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mount Ida Junior College</a>. Adjoining tracts of land were converted into the Wells Avenue office park in the 1970s, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_River" title="Charles River" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charles River</a> Footpath (since renamed the Helen Heyn Riverway) in the 1990s.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-Heyn-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">In popular culture[</h2>Artist R.G. Harper Pennington (1854—1920) in one of his paintings depicted a nude RGS II as the character "Little Billee" from the bohemian novel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilby(novel)" title="Trilby (novel)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Trilby</a> (1894) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_du_Maurier" title="George du Maurier" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George du Maurier</a>. This painting hung in the bedroom of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Symes_Lehr" title="Henry Symes Lehr" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Henry Symes Lehr</a>, the homosexual husband of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Wharton_Drexel" title="Elizabeth Wharton Drexel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Elizabeth Wharton Drexel</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-Decies1935-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a>In a 1982 episode of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece(TV_series)" title="Masterpiece (TV series)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Masterpiece Theatre</a> that chronicled the life of Nancy Astor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce_Brosnan" title="Pierce Brosnan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pierce Brosnan</a> portrayed RGS II as a profligate and promiscuous gambler. In this version, Nancy Langhorne Astor continued to love RGS II after her marriage to Waldorf Astor, but this has not been documented. For this performance, Brosnan was nominated for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor%E2%80%93_Series,Miniseries_or_Television_Film#1980s" title="Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Best Supporting Actor</a> in 1985.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_II#cite_note-imdbawards-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">References</h2></div><div></div>