Educated at Bombay University and in London at University College Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital. His address in 1919, when he took the Fellowship, was Tembavali, Devgad Ratnagiri, Bombay. At the time of his death he was serving at the Charak Clinic, Queen's Road, Charni Road Station, Bombay

Simeon Cyril Shaw was born in Horsham on 11 March 1893 and after early education at Reigate Grammar School entered Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1917. He served in the Royal Navy during the first world war and after demobilisation returned to the Middlesex to work in the Bland-Sut