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Shepard, Ernest Howard
Birth date
1879
Death date
1976
Biography
E. H. Shepard spent his childhood years in London. At the age of ten his family moved from St John’s Wood to Hammersmith. Shepard went to St Paul’s School, whence he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools. He served in the Great War as a major and was awarded the military cross for bravery in the field. After the war he contributed drawings for the magazine “Punch”, where he met E. V. Lucas, who introduced him to A. A. Milne. He is best remembered as illustrator of four of Milne’s children’s books as well as of Kenneth Graham’s classic, “Wind in the Willows”. In the later part of his life he lived at Lodsworth, Sussex, and near Godalming. He died in 1976 at the age of 97.