William Harry Hamlin Hamshaw (1854-1930) was a coachbuilder and local politician active in the Wimbledon area. Born in Leicester, by the 1870s he was a coachbuilder's assistant and was awarded a number of prizes and certificates by the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers at exhibitions. By the late 1880s he had established his own business, Hamshaw's Carriage Works, in Wimbledon in the southern suburbs of London. In 1904 Hamshaw was President of the Institute of British Carriage Manufacturers.