George Shepheard 1688/9-1731
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George SHEPHEARD 1688/9-1731
Biographical Note
Son of John Shepheard, of Hellins, Herefordshire, gentleman. BA Trinity College, Oxford 1709, fellow, MA 1712, proctor 1719, BD 1721. He became keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in 1729 but died of smallpox not long afterwards.
Books
Shepheard used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 26670); the extent and disposition of his library is not known.
Sources
- Foster, J., Alumni Oxonienses, Oxford, 1891.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.
- British Archaeology at the Ashmolean Museum.