Edgar Sheppard (buried 1897)

At a glance

At a glance
Surname: 
Sheppard
First name: 
Edgar
Other Christian names: 
Gender: 
Male
Children: 
Yes
Burial number: 
289
Born: 
10/09/1819
Died: 
29/10/1897
Buried: 
04/11/1897
Occupation: 
Physician; Psychologist; Author
Distinction: 
Psychologist and Author
Heene Hallmark: 
No
Commonwealth War Grave: 
No

The Grave

The grave
Cemetery area: 
Unknown
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Burial remains: 
Unknown
The headstone
Endowed grave: 
No
Headstone description: 
None Found
Headstone inscription: 
None Found

Life story

Life story

Worcester born, Edgar Sheppard was a psychologist who qualified as a physician and worked in lunatic asylums.

Edgar was born on 10th September 1819 in Claines, Worcestershire. His father, James Pook Sheppard, was a well respect surgeon and his mother was Maria Allies.

Educated at King's College, London, where he was afterwards Professor of Psychological Medicine. He was for many years Medical Superintendent of the Male Department of Colney Hatch Asylum, and, by the great and constant care with which he exercised his functions there, was well known and highly appreciated. He was a man of distinguished presence, was refined in taste and manners, and was one of the old school of courtly physicians. He was widely read in medical literature, both British and foreign, and caused some sensation as a medical author, particularly by a work on the psychology of Quakerism and by one on the Turkish bath, of the uses of which he had made a special study and which he advocated with perhaps excessive enthusiasm. The Home Office frequently called him in officially to give his opinion in criminal cases, so that he was a well-known figure in the Law Courts. After retiring from his post at Colney Hatch he lived for some time in London, where he frequented the meetings of the medical societies. In 1872 he received the Hon DCL (Doctor of Civil Law) of the Southern University, USA. After retiring he lived at Randolph Lodge, West Worthing, and died there October 29th, 1897.

Edgar's son, from his marriage to Anabel Marmont, was the Canon of Windsor James Edgar Sheppard (known as Edgar).

Burial researcher: 
Pat Brownbill

Further information

Birth
Date born: 
10/09/1819
Parents
Mother
Mother's name: 
Maria
Mother's maiden name: 
Allies
Father
Father's name: 
James Pook Sheppard

Death

Death (details)
Date of death: 
29/10/1897
Age (at time of death): 
78
Cause of death: 
Unknown
Address at time of death: 
Randolph Lodge, Lansdowne Road, Worthing, Sussex, England
Obituary

From Parr's Lives of the Fellows
From Parr's Lives of the Fellows

Sheppard, Edgar (1819 - 1897) 

by Royal College of Surgeons of England 

Asset Name E003394 - Sheppard, Edgar (1819 - 1897) 

Title Sheppard, Edgar (1819 - 1897) 

Author Royal College of Surgeons of England 

Identifier RCS: E003394 

Publisher London : Royal College of Surgeons of England 

Publication Date 2013-01-17 

Subject Medical Obituaries 

Description Obituary for Sheppard, Edgar (1819 - 1897), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Language English Source Plarr's Lives of the Fellows 

Full Name Sheppard, Edgar 

Date of Birth 1819 

Date of Death 29 October 1897 

Place of Death West Worthing 

Occupation Psychologist 

Titles/Qualifications MRCS June 13th 1846 FRCS February 10th 1859 MD St Andrews 1855 MRCP Lond 1859 LSA 1850 

Details Educated at King's College, London, where he was afterwards Professor of Psychological Medicine. He was for many years Medical Superintendent of the Male Department of Colney Hatch Asylum, and, by the great and constant care with which he exercised his functions there, was well known and highly appreciated. He was a man of distinguished presence, was refined in taste and manners, and was one of the old school of courtly physicians. He was widely read in medical literature, both British and foreign, and caused some sensation as a medical author, particularly by a work on the psychology of Quakerism and by one on the Turkish bath, of the uses of which he had made a special study and which he advocated with perhaps excessive enthusiasm. The Home Office frequently called him in officially to give his opinion in criminal cases, so that he was a well-known figure in the Law Courts. After retiring from his post at Colney Hatch he lived for some time in London, where he frequented the meetings of the medical societies. In 1872 he received the Hon DCL (Doctor of Civil Law) of the Southern University, USA. After retiring he lived at Randolph Lodge, West Worthing, and died there October 29th, 1897. The Rev Canon Edgar Sheppard, who became Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal in 1884, was his son, and H R L Sheppard, sometime Rector of St Martin's in-the-Fields, his grandson. A striking photograph is in the Fellows' Album.   Publications: *A Fallen Faith; or the Psychology of Quakerism*. *Bathing: How to Do it, When to Do it, and Where to Do it*, 2nd ed, 8vo, London, 1866; 3rd ed, 1869. "On Some of the Modern Teachings of Insanity," 8vo, Lewes, 1872; reprinted from *Jour Ment Sci*, 1872, xvii, 499. *Lectures on Madness in its Medical, Legal and Social Aspects*, 8vo, London, 1873. "Cremation and Cholera," 8vo, London, 1884; reprinted from *Pall Mall Gaz*. Translation of Gilbert's *Special Diseases of the Skin* 12mo, London, 1845. Various contributions to *Brit and For Med-Chir Rev, Lancet,* etc. 

Rights Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England 

Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows 

Format Obituary 

Format Asset 

Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003300-E003399 

URL for File 375577 

Media Type Unknown