Henry Shepherd

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Henry Young Shepherd MBE (1857-1947 [1] [2] ) was the Dean of Antigua from 1906 [3] until 1930. [4]

St. Johns Cathedral (Antigua and Barbuda) Cathedral in Saint John

St. John's Cathedral also known as the St. John the Divine, the Cathedral Church of the Diocese of North Eastern Caribbean and Aruba, is an Anglican church perched on a hilltop in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda. It is the seat of the Diocese of the North East Caribbean and Aruba in the Church in the Province of the West Indies.

Shepherd was educated at Codrington College and ordained in 1882. His first post was a curacy at St George, Antigua after which he served his whole career at the Cathedral: [5] first as Rector; then Vicar general and finally Dean.

Codrington College Anglican theological seminary in Barbados

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Curate person who is invested with the care or cure (cura) of souls of a parish

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Antigua island in Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua, also known as Waladli or Wadadli by the native population, is an island in the West Indies. It is one of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region and the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua and Barbuda became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations on 1 November 1981.

He died on 30 January 1952. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Deaths The Times (London, England), Thursday, Mar 20, 1947; pg. 1; Issue 50714
  2. ↑ London Gazette
  3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p1167 Oxford, OUP, 1929
  4. ↑ ‘SHEPHERD, Very Rev. Henry Young’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 11 Nov 2013
  5. ↑ Grave
  6. ↑ Obituary The Times (London, England), Thursday, Mar 20, 1947; pg. 7; Issue 50714


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