Arthur Pearce Shepherd, DD (31 December 1885 – 27 February 1968) was

Archdeacon of Dudley The Archdeacon of Dudley is one of two archdeacons in the Anglican Diocese of Worcester, England (the other being the Archdeacon of Worcester). History The archdeaconry of Dudley was created by Order in Council on 11 February 1921 from the Worcest ...

from 1934 until 1951. Shepherd was educated at

Cardiff High School ) , established = 1895 (Creation of earliest of predecessor schools) , closed = , type = Public (magnet) secondary , religious_affiliation = , president = , head_label = Headmaster , head = Stephen Jones , r ...

and

Jesus College, Oxford Jesus College (in full: Jesus College in the University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's Foundation) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship St ...

; and ordained in 1911. After a

curacy A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...

at All Saints,

Northampton Northampton () is a market town and civil parish in the East Midlands of England, on the River Nene, north-west of London and south-east of Birmingham. The county town of Northamptonshire, Northampton is one of the largest towns in England; ...

he was Assistant Secretary for Young People's Work at the

Church Mission Society The Church Mission Society (CMS), formerly known as the Church Missionary Society, is a British mission society working with the Christians around the world. Founded in 1799, CMS has attracted over nine thousand men and women to serve as mission ...

. Later he held incumbencies in

, St James the Greater, Leicester and

Dudley Dudley is a large market town and administrative centre in the county of West Midlands, England, southeast of Wolverhampton and northwest of Birmingham. Historically an exclave of Worcestershire, the town is the administrative centre of the ...

. He was a

Canon Residentiary A canon (from the Latin , itself derived from the Greek , , "relating to a rule", "regular") is a member of certain bodies in subject to an ecclesiastical rule. Originally, a canon was a cleric living with others in a clergy house or, later, i ...

Worcester Cathedral Worcester Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Worcester, in Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified ...

from 1945 to 1965; and Proctor in Convocation for the Diocese of Worcester from 1951 until 1964. In 1954, Shepherd authored a biography of

Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a ...

Writings

*''Sin, Suffering and God''. 1931 *''The Eternity of Time''. 1941 *''Marriage Was Made for Man: A Study of the Problem of Marriage and Divorce in Relation to the Church of England''. 1948 *''A Scientist of the Invisible: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Rudolf Steiner''. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1954

References

1885 births 1968 deaths Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford Archdeacons of Dudley Doctors of Divinity People educated at Cardiff High School {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub