The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Sheppard, Herbert Norman

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Sheppard, Herbert Norman, B.A, fourth son of Edmund Sheppard (q.v.), sometime Puisne Judge of Queensland, was born at Brisbane in Dec. 1868, and educated at Brisbane Grammar School and at the Charterhouse School, London, where he held a scholarship.^[1] Having obtained a minor scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered there in Oct. 1887, and was elected to a Foundation Scholarship in Dec. 1889. He graduated B.A. in the Mathematical Tripos, in June 1890, as seventeenth wrangler.

1. A publication of the school List of Carthusians, 1800–1879 does not show the attendance. (Wikisource contributor note)