Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw

Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw was an English botanist and classicist.

He was born in Woodbridge in Suffolk to a father that specialized in grammar, and a mother specializing with astronomy. In 1921, he went to Corpus Christi College and then Cambridge University, reading classics, but then decided to study natural sciences. He took his degree in natural sciences in 1924, and finished in 1925. After this, he took a position at Kew Gardens. He became an expert at flora of tropical Asia and entomology.

When citing a botanical name, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw is abbreviated as Airy Shaw.