Born in Bromley, Kent, England, the son of the chaplain at Bromley College, he was educated at Bromsgrove School and appeared for their first XI in 1866 and 1867.
After some time as a Commoner Tutor at Winchester, in 1855 he became chaplain of Bromley College, an almshouse for the widows of clergy.
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A sister to fellow costume designer Magdalena Biedrzycka, Sheppard made many films with directing masters like Steven Spielberg or Roman Polański.
On May 26, 1934, Long was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida vacated by William B. Sheppard.
The treasurer was bookseller A.W. Sheppard and printer Walter Stone was the editor of the new society's journal Broadside.
In 1988 he was a lecturer at both the University of Oxford and Jesus and St. Catherine's Colleges where he thought physical geography.
During his early career he worked with artists such as Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Diana Trask, Exile, Roger Miller, Joe Tex, Ronnie McDowell and T. G. Sheppard.
In 1915 Shepard set to music, "This is My Father's World," a poem written by Maltbie Davenport Babcock, a minister from New York, who had been a close friend of Sheppard's.
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He eventually joined the Second Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland, and became president of the Presbyterian Board of Publications and Sabbath-School Work.
Word of this popular confectionery spread to other women's colleges.
The government renamed colleges and many Women's colleges were prefixed with Government College as in Government College of Women and Government Degree Girls College.
Sheppard was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1965).
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He was not a candidate for renomination in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress.
In both venues, he has had a long working relationship with stable owner, George W. Strawbridge, Jr. and in 2008 he conditioned Strawbridge's filly Forever Together to victory in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.
Mary Allen Seminary (later called Mary Allen Junior College) was the first black women's college in the state of Texas.
In 1695, after serving two years as Treasurer of Bromley College, a home for clergy widows, he resigned to establish - at a cost of £10,000 - his own hospice or almshouse for 'poor Merchants...and such as have lost their Estates by accidents, dangers and perils of the seas or by any other accidents ways or means in their honest endeavours to get their living by means of Merchandizing'.