Sir Horatio Hale Shephard (1842 – 19 April 1921) was a British lawyer who served as the Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency in 1885 and acted as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in 1898.

Early and family life

Horatio Hale Shephard was the son of John Shephard and Harriett Strachey Harper Shephard. Harriett Harper Shephard was a daughter of Tristram Harper and Mary Jellicoe Harper, sister of Henry John Chitty Harper, and a great-great-granddaughter of John Strachey. Horatio H. Shephard educated at

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and

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. He studied law at the

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and was

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in 1867.

Career

Shephard entered the India service as a

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at the

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in 1867. He was appointed Professor of law at the

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in October 1873 and in 1881, was made a fellow of the

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. In March 1885, he was appointed Advocate General of the

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and thereby a member of the

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. In January 1888, he was appointed officiating judge of the

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and confirmed in July 1889. He also officiated as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in 1898, before retiring in July 1901. In April 1902 he was appointed a legal adviser and solicitor to the

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. He was

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in 1908. Shephard died on 19 April 1921 at

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Family

Shephard married, in 1876, Agnes Rideout, daughter of Major-General J. W. Rideout. Their second son,

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, rose to the rank of brigadier-general, but was killed in

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References

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