A Reverend?
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Schnurrbart
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According to CCEd "Appt Shepherd, John 06/04/1799 Lecturer Licensing St Giles in the Fields/"
Like all these things, once you know the answer the inscription is quite legible- Rev J Shepherd M A.
Like all these things, once you know the answer the inscription is quite legible- Rev J Shepherd M A.
Thanks, Ann. I will let him know.Just as an end note - there is a PCC will for the Reverend John Shepherd
I haven't looked at the will for clues (which might discount the following), but since his death was reported in a Westmorland newspaper, I wonder if he was the John Shepherd son of Richard of Beckermot, Cumberland, gent, who matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford in 1777 (source: Joseph Foster's Alumni Oxonienses). This might of course help in identifying the mystery grandparent named on the back of the silhouette.
Archie's Mum
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1821. The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, an advertisement appears for a private girls school, ('Parlour Boarders') run by a Mrs Lees, Surrey House, Brixton Hall, Brighton Road five miles from Town, Surrey.
One of her referees was Rev John Shepherd, Lecturer of St Giles, 8 Brewers Green, Tothill Fields.
One of her referees was Rev John Shepherd, Lecturer of St Giles, 8 Brewers Green, Tothill Fields.
Findem
The Fearless One. Rest in Peace.
That's how I see that part and I can make out Islington at the end I think, plus Rector and London and that's it.
janetbooth
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Burial of a Rev John SHEPHERD at St Andrew by the Wardrobe, he being of Westminster, aged 87?? This oretty much tallies with the newspaper article regarding his death that Ann found for you.
Janet
Janet
Thanks. I had found it.