The couple had five children including the actor and theatre director Glen Byam Shaw and the art historian James Jim Byam Shaw. Their only daughter, Barbara, married Rear-Admiral A.F. Pugsley. Another son, David, a naval officer and destroyer captain, awarded the OBE, was killed at sea during World War II whilst in command of HMS Stanley, whilst George, a major in the Royal Scots, was killed at Dunkirk in 1940 whilst second-in-command of the 1st Battalion. The family is depicted in the artists semi-autobiographical pastel painting My Wife, My Bairns and My Wee Dog John (1903).
The couple had five children including the actor and theatre director Glen Byam Shaw and the art historian James Jim Byam Shaw. Their only daughter, Barbara, married Rear-Admiral A.F. Pugsley. Another son, David, a naval officer and destroyer captain, awarded the OBE, was killed at sea during World War II whilst in command of HMS Stanley, whilst George, a major in the Royal Scots, was killed at Dunkirk in 1940 whilst second-in-command of the 1st Battalion. The family is depicted in the artists semi-autobiographical pastel painting My Wife, My Bairns and My Wee Dog John (1903).