There is some confusion surrounding this name which is easily muddled with that of Edward Shepherd (see above) and Major E.Sheppard who was a Lepidopterist whose collection was sold after his death by Stevens on 25-26 March 1889 (with A.F.Sheppard’s collection). An obituary for Edward Sheppard in EMM, 20, 1883, p.118 mentions that he was a Collector of Customs in the port of London until two months before his death and that, ‘besides his general love of Nature, he, for many years, devoted considerable attention to Coleoptera, of which he formed a collection; but his ardour relaxed, and for a long time he had given up active participation in entomological pursuits, yet to the last he retained an interest in Entomology and Entomologists’. Presumably this is the E.R.Shepperd whose collection of Lepidoptera was sold by Stevens on 11 January 1884 (Chalmers-Hunt (1976) p.116). FES, FLS, FZS. At one time he was one of the eight members of the Entomological Club . (MD 11/04)
Dates
1816 – 8 September 1883