Isaac Shepherd (1800 – 11 December 1877) was an Australian politician. He was born at

Ryde Ryde is an English seaside town and civil parish on the north-east coast of the Isle of Wight. The built-up area had a population of 24,096 according to the 2021 Census. Its growth as a seaside resort came after the villages of Upper Ryde and ...

to farmers James and Ann Shepherd. On 4 December 1832 he married Ann Payne, with whom he had ten children; a second marriage on 16 March 1875 to Matilda Mary Ridley was childless. A pastoralist, he held extensive land on the

Murrumbidgee River The Murrumbidgee River () is a major tributary of the Murray River within the Murray–Darling basin and the second longest river in Australia. It flows through the Australian state of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, desce ...

. In 1860 he was elected to the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House ...

for St Leonards, but he retired in 1864. Shepherd died at Ryde in 1877.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shepherd, Isaac 1800 births 1877 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians