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Peter Shepheard

Sir Peter Faulkner Shepheard

FILA (11 November 1913 – 11 April 2002) was a British architect and landscape architect
.

Biography

He was born in

Liverpool School of Architecture under Charles Reilly. He obtained a first-class degree in 1936 and won the graduate scholarship. From 1940 to 1943, he worked for the Ministry of Supply, working on the design and construction of arms factories under tight time pressure. In 1943, his godfather, Patrick Abercrombie, offered Shepheard a job on the Greater London Plan for the postwar development of London. Shepheard then worked for William Holford at the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, and became deputy chief architect for the Stevenage Development Corporation (1947–48).[1]

He started in partnership with Derek Bridgwater and, after Bridgwater retired in 1962, the firm became Shepheard, Epstein and Hunter as Shepheard was joined by

University of Lancaster.[1]

He became best known for many landscape projects such as

Liverpool Docks after bombing is in the Walker Art Gallery.[2]

The

National Parks Commission (1966–68), the Countryside Commission (1968-71), the Civic Trust and from 1976 to 2001 he was honorary artistic adviser to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. He spent six months a year for eight years from 1971 as dean of the graduate school of fine art at the University of Pennsylvania.[2] In 1984 he was elected Master of the Art Workers' Guild.[1]

National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/20) with Peter Shepheard in 1997 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.[3]

Awards

Shepheard received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1979.[4]

He was appointed

Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972[5][6] and on 7 January 1980 was appointed a Knight Bachelor for services to Architecture.[7]
He was awarded the Landscape Institute Gold Medal in 2000.

Personal life

Grave of Sir Peter Shepheard in Highgate Cemetery

He and his wife, Mary Bailey, married in 1943 and they had a son, Paul,[8] and daughter, Sarah.

He died on 11th April, 2002 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Sir Peter Shepheard: Urban architect with a lifelong vision of the natural world". The Guardian. 15 April 2002. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Sir Peter Shepheard". The Daily Telegraph. 16 April 2002. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
  3. ^ National Life Stories, 'Shepheard, Peter (1 of 18) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 1997. Retrieved 10 April 2018
  4. ^ "Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates". www1.hw.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  5. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. January 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  6. ^ "London Gazette (supplement)" (PDF). 45554. 1 January 1972: 9. Retrieved 15 August 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ "No. 48059". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 7 January 1980. p. 288.
  8. ^ John Grindrod, Outskirts (2017)
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