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Born in the 1875, Martin Shaw was an English Composer. Shaw attended the Royal College of Music. In the 1900s Shaw moved to Chelsea and became involved with artists such as Edward Gordon Craig and William Butler Yeats. In 1903 Shaw became engaged to Edith Craig, sister of his friend Edward Gordon. They did not marry but always remained friends. Beginning in 1906 he toured with Isadora Duncan, an internationally acclaimed dancer, as a Music Director. Shaw did finally marry in 1916 to a musical director named Joan Cobbold (“About Martin Shaw”). As well as being a composer, Shaw also contributed to The Green Sheaf.