Richard Sheppard (architect)

Sir Richard Herbert Sheppard (2 July 1910 – 18 December 1982) was an English architect.

Sheppard was born in Bristol. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and trained as an architect at the Royal West of England Academy and the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA School) in London. He qualified as an architect in 1936 . When he was 19 years old, and during his time at the Royal West of England Academy, he lost the use of his legs through poliomyelitis. He spent two years in hospital, he was on crutches until he was 66 years old, thereafter he used a wheelchair.

He was married Jean Shufflebottom on 21 July 1938, a fellow architect who he met at the AA School.

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