John Shepherd (1849 – 8 April 1893) was an Australian politician. He was born in

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

to John Shepherd and Eliza Audley. A solicitor, he moved to Sydney around 1873. On 25 October 1883 he married Margaret Kennedy Yorston Ballantyne, with whom he had a daughter. In 1877 he was elected to the

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for

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; he did not contest the subsequent election in 1880. He returned to the Assembly in 1885 as the member for East Macquarie, but was defeated running for

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in 1887. A

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r, he served his final term on election to Paddington in 1889, and did not contest in 1891. Shepherd died in Sydney in 1893.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shepherd, John 1849 births 1893 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Free Trade Party politicians 19th-century Australian politicians Politicians from Melbourne