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

His father, James Pook Sheppard, was a well respect surgeon.

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

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Researcher: Pat Brownbill

Date of Death: 29/10/1897

Cause of death: Unknown

Address line 1: Randolph Lodge

Town: Worthing

County: Sussex

Country: England

Obituary

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

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