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Roy Edwin Shaw OBE (21 July 1925 – 4 January 2008) was a Labour Party politician in London, England. He was the Leader of [[London Borough of Camden|Camden London Borough Council from 1975 to 1982, serving on Camden Council and its predecessor councils continuously for 51 years until just before his death, making him the longest-serving councillor in the UK. Shaw was known nationally as an expert on local government.
He became a councillor in the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead in 1956, representing the Kilburn ward and serving on the borough until 1962. He was an alderman in the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras, a borough which he was a member of from 1962 to 1965. These were two of the three boroughs which were merged to create Camden Council in 1965.
Mayor of Camden 1999-2000.