London Francis Sheppard obituary First general editor of the Survey of London and one of the capital’s great topographical writers Drawing of Covent Garden in the late 1960s by FA Evans and TP O’Connor, which was published in 1970. Yet between 1954 and his retirement in 1983 Sheppard produced no fewer than 16 volumes of the Survey of London. It owes its modern form and reputation to Sheppard, who may be fairly claimed to be London’s greatest topographical writer since John Stow, the Elizabethan historian. From 1949 to 1953 he was an assistant keeper at the London Museum, now the Museum of London, which moved into Kensington Palace during Sheppard’s time there. • Francis Henry Wollaston Sheppard, historian, born 10 September 1921; died 22 January 2018

Source: The Guardian February 12, 2018 16:52 UTC