Shaw's birth father had a limited role in his life while he had a close, if occasionally difficult, relationship to his mother. Shaw III was educated at Shrewsbury School. He briefly served in the Life Guards but his increasing alcoholism caused difficulty.
He had long had suicidal tendencies and his life mostly went adrift from an early point. In 1931, he was imprisoned for six months for homosexual offences. His alcoholism, the Profumo affair, his mother's death, and the death of his half-brother Viscount William Waldorf Astor II may have increased his suicidal tendencies. On July 10, 1970 he committed suicide, aged 71. He is buried in the estate chapel at Cliveden. John Singer Sargent did a 1923 charcoal portrait of Shaw III in his military uniform. Nancy gave the portrait to Alfred Edward Goodey, art collector and Shaw III's partner, and it was later sold in England in 2011 for £23,000.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_
Paperback: 760 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (July 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1500563323
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
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