William Shepherd | Barrow Archives
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📜 William Shepherd was born in Liverpool in 1768. He became the tutor to the children of Rev. John Yates of Toxteth Park Chapel, Liverpool in 1790 and while there he met William Roscoe, becoming one of his group of reformers known as the Liverpool Jacobins. In 1791 Shepherd became minister of the Presbyterian (Unitarian) chapel at Gateacre, near Liverpool. There he opened a successful school which he ran with his wife, Frances. Shepherd was an enthusiast for civil and religious liberty; he believed in the abolition of slavery and by 1790 was an advocate of female suffrage. He died in 1847
In 1804 he travelled to the Lake District and recorded with illustrations his travels in a diary now held in Barrow Archive Centre.
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