Very little information survives about Shepherd who was a well-known collector of Coleoptera in his day and also Secretary of the ESL (1855-66). He shared the role for part of this time with E.W.Janson but their relationship cannot have been happy for Shepherd was one of the signatories to the document which was highly critical of Janson’s management of the Society’s collections and recommended his sacking. (Neave and Griffin (1933)). Smith (1986) p.150 records that the HDO acquired 22 Coleoptera by exchange from E. Shepherd in 1858. There are also Shepherd specimens (Staphylinidae only?) in the Mason collection at Bolton (marked with large bright blue circles) and in the D.G.Hall collection at the North Hertfordshire Museum (information from Trevor James). His library was sold by Stevens on 18 July 1893. (MD 11/04)