Shepherd, Henry John

Henry John Shepherd was a solicitor who was in partnership with John Lockwood and between them they conducted a large proportion of the legal work and land sales of Beverley. The partnership was dissolved in 1821 and Lockwood died in 1827. Shepherd went bankrupt in 1832 and formed a new partnership in 1833. For the first four decades of the nineteenth century he acted as deputy clerk of the peace and county treasurer for the East Riding.

From the guide to the Papers of Henry John Shepherd, Solicitor, 1735-1848, (Hull University, Brynmor Jones Library)

Epithet: counsel to the Admiralty

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