Dick Sheppard (priest)

Dick Sheppard
Dean of Canterbury
ChurchCanterbury Cathedral
In office1929–1931
Other post(s)Vicar, St Martin-in-the-Fields (1914–1926)
Rector of Glasgow University (1937)
Orders
Ordination1908
Personal details
Born(1880-09-02)2 September 1880
Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Died31 October 1937(1937-10-31) (aged 57)
City of London, UK
BuriedCanterbury Cathedral
DenominationAnglican
ResidencePaternoster Row (at death)
ParentsEdgar Sheppard & Mary née White
SpouseAlison Lennox (m. 1915)
Children2 daughters[1]
Alma materTrinity Hall, Cambridge

Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard CH (2 September 1880 – 31 October 1937) was an English Anglican priest, Dean of Canterbury and Christian pacifist.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference odnb was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Alan Wilkinson, Sheppard, Hugh Richard Lawrie (1880–1937), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2007 accessed 17 June 2009