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Surname	Shepherd	Alternative Surname
First Name	Edward, of Plymouth	Initial of Surname	S
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	c1818-32
Year of Death
Biographical Details	In 1818 he provided a pavement of marble and brass for the Duke of Bedford’s temple of the graces at Woburn (10). It was composed of coloured marbles from Sandygate, Bickerton, and elsewhere on the Duke of Bedford’s estates in south Devon. The Gentleman’s Magazine described his fountain of black-and-white Devon marble for the Emperor of Brazil as ‘magnificent’ (9). The work was 25 feet high and weighed 18 tons (GM 1826, 96, 70). Shepherd’s tablets, mostly in the neoclassical style, are condemned by Gunnis as ‘dull’. Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 349; Clifford 1995, 68