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Ellen Oshey (Oshii) was a woman of Japanese heritage living in Beijing at the end of the 19th century. She was from a wealthy samurai family which had given up warfare to concentrate on painting, indeed her father had visited Claude Monet. Ellen met an Irish steam boat captain called Leonard Shaw, who was a distant relative of Bernard Shaw. Despite Shaw being 60 years old at the time of marriage he managed to father eight children with her. One of their daughters was called Cecilia, who in time had a daughter called Pamela. Pamela went onto marry a British ex-spitfire pilot, one of their five children went on to be a leader of the British conservative party, Ian Duncan Smith
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