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Maw, Nigel Nawton Graham
1933 - 2005 (71 years) 
Has 25 ancestors and 12 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
1872 - 1952-
Relationship 
with Living Birth 4 Jul 1933 District Wandsworth 
[1, 2] - First name(s) Nigel N G
Last name Maw
Birth quarter 3
Birth year 1933
Mother's maiden name Crisp
District Wandsworth
County London
Country England
Volume 1D
Page 649
Record set England & Wales Births 1837-2006
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory Civil Births
Collections from United Kingdom, England
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Gender Male Census 29 Sep 1939 (6 years) 48 South Hill Streatham, Lambeth, , Surrey, England [3] - First name(s) Last name(s) DOB Sex Occupation Marital status Schedule Schedule Sub Number
Frederick Graham Maw 11 4 1900 Male Solicitor Married 4 1
Thelma Valentine Maw 14 Feb 1907 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 4 2
Nigel Nawton Graham Maw 4 Jul 1933 Male At School Single 4 3
Death 12 Apr 2005 District Hampshire North [2] Obituary 6 May 2005 (71 years) [4] The Guardian - Friday May 6, 2005
Nigel Graham Maw, a lawyer who worked with the Rolling
Stones, chaired Decca and won the extradition of Martin
Luther King's killer for the US government, has died, aged
71.
His first memory was of watching the 1936 fire that
destroyed the Crystal Palace, from his bedroom window in
Dulwich, south London, aged three. After Westminster school,
and national service with the Queen's Own Royal West Kent,
in 1954 he went to Pembroke College, Cambridge, to study
modern languages, later switching to law.
A lifelong passion for early church music started with his
formation of the Valence Mary singers, a double quartet. One
of its members, a Girton organ scholar named Elizabeth
Werry, encouraged him to join the university madrigal
society. He married her in 1961, and they had four children.
In 1958, he joined Rowe & Maw, the law firm set up by his
great uncle, Frederick James Maw, in 1895, and run by his
father since 1926; he became a partner in 1961. Giving
equity to a newly qualified solicitor was an unusual move
among law firms wishing to be taken seriously, and it put
Graham Maw under tremendous pressure to perform. He
responded by throwing himself into his work.
His energy also impressed the US government. In 1968, after
James Earl Ray, who was wanted in the US for the shooting of
Martin Luther King, had been captured at Heathrow airport,
Graham Maw was on the telephone to the White House daily
concerning the extradition proceedings. He would then go
before the magistrate at Bow Street court saying, "May it
please you, sir, I appear on behalf of the United States of
America." Ray was sent back to Memphis, where he was
convicted.
When Graham Maw joined Rowe & Maw, the firm had fewer than a
dozen lawyers. Now called Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, it is
one of the 10 largest law practices in the world. Much of
this growth was driven during Graham Maw's 17 years as
senior partner, from 1976 to 1993. In his early days, his
clients included Jeremy Thorpe, Bridget Riley, Zsa Zsa Gabor
and Diana Rigg, and he gave advice to the CIA.
He became chairman of Decca in 1970, when the record company
was under attack from Sir Arnold Weinstock's GEC. In the
1990s, he wrote a number of legal books, the best known
being Maw On Corporate Governance, co-authored with Lord
Lane of Horsell and Sir Michael Craig-Cooper. From 1992 to
1998, he was special professor of law at Nottingham
University. A keen yachtsman, in his later years Graham Maw
took a quiet pride in his belated mastery of his local
church organ.
He is survived by his second wife, Gillian, and his
children.
· Nigel Nawton Graham Maw, lawyer, born July 4 1933; died
April 12 2005
Name Nigel Nawton Graham-Maw _UID 8157A5C6755149B499D2ECC2BFB840C79DA5 Patriarch & Matriarch 
Maw, James
b. Est 1697, Marton,, Yorkshire, England
d. Aug 1774, Marton,, Yorkshire, England (Age 77 years) (5 x Great Grandfather) 
Stott, Rose Marion
b. Between Jan and Mar 1872, Lambeth,, London, England
d. Between Oct and Dec 1952, District Lambeth (Grandmother) Headstones 
Submit Headstone Photo Person ID I9066 The Family Maw Last Modified 3 Aug 2021
Father 
Maw, Frederick Graham
b. 11 Apr 1900, Redcar, , Yorkshire, England
d. Between Apr and Jun 1975, District Camberwell
Other Partners: Frow, Phyllis Betty m. Jul-Sep 1971Mother Crisp, Thelma Valentine
b. 14 Feb 1907, District Lambeth
d. 23 Mar 1960, 21 Alleyn Park, West Dulwich, , Surrey, England (Age 53 years) Marriage Between Jul and Sep 1932 District Kensington [5] Family ID F2728 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Living
Other Partners: LivingChildren4 children Family ID F2729 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Aug 2021
Family 2 Living Family ID F4261 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 25 Oct 2017
- First name(s) Nigel N G
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Birth - 4 Jul 1933 - District Wandsworth 
Census - 29 Sep 1939 - 48 South Hill Streatham, Lambeth, , Surrey, England 
Death - 12 Apr 2005 - District Hampshire North = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
Sources - [S118] England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983, (FreeBMD. England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: Microfilm and microfiche of the England and Wales, Civil Registration Indexes created by the General Register Office, in London, England.), GRO Reference - District Wandsworth - Volume 1d Page 649 (Reliability: 3).
- [S37] England and Wales, Civil Registration 1984 - 2013, GRO Reference - District Hampshire North - Reg Nr CSC Entry 117 (Reliability: 3).
- [S471] www.findmypast.co.uk, 1939 UK Register Transcription (29 September 1939), (1939 UK Register Transcription), Ref: RG101/0369I/002/15 Letter Code: (Reliability: 3).
- [S7] I9094, James Maw.
- [S118] England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983, (FreeBMD. England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: Microfilm and microfiche of the England and Wales, Civil Registration Indexes created by the General Register Office, in London, England.), GRO Reference - District Kensington - Volume 1a Page 303 (Reliability: 3).
