John Sheppard

(1785-1879)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Sheppard, John, 1785-1879 DNB: Sheppard, John (1785-1879), religious writer LBT ID: JoShepp1879 VIAF ID: 44289656 LOC ID: nr94008009	B/BAP: 1785-10-15 DIED: 1879-04-30
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Baptist preacher employed in the wool trade in Somerset; author of Thoughts Preparative or Persuasive to Private Devotion (1824). Byron was much moved by the first Mrs. Sheppard's piety.
CORRESPONDENCE OF John Sheppard: John Sheppard to Lord Byron, 21 November 1821 in “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. III.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 35 (September 1832) 228-41 John Sheppard to Lord Byron, 21 November 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Lord Byron to John Sheppard, 8 December 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)