Emily Shaw

Dame  was the wife of Reuben Shaw and the mother of Liz Shaw and Lucy Shaw. By the 1970s, she had at least two grandchildren.

During World War II, she was an ambulance driver. (AUDIO: The Cloisters of Terror)

She had signed the Official Secrets Act more often than Liz and was consequently aware of UNIT's true activities. (AUDIO: The Last Post)

In 1977, she was the dean of St Matilda's College in Oxford, where she taught Medieval Studies. In that year, she encountered the Fourth Doctor and Leela. (AUDIO: The Cloisters of Terror) Her husband died in 1995. (HOMEVID: Ghosts of Winterborne)