David James Shaw
BA PhD DLitt
- born 1941, in Loughborough, Leicestershire
- educated at
- Rosebery Primary School, Loughborough
- Loughborough Grammar School
- University of Sheffield
- degrees
- BA Sheffield (Latin and French, first-class Honours)
- PhD Sheffield (Latin and French)
Thesis on 'The influence of Juvenal on French Renaissance verse satire'- DLitt (Lambeth)
- lives in Canterbury, Kent
- jobs
- retired university teacher (Renaissance French literature), University of Kent
- Secretary, Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL), 2002–2009.