Peter Shepheard

Sir Peter Faulkner Shepheard CBE (11 November 1913 – 11 April 2002) was a British architect and landscape architect.

He was born in Oxton, Birkenhead and educated at Birkenhead School. His father was an architect. He also studied architecture at the Liverpool School of Architecture under Charles Reilly. He obtained a first-class degree in 1936 and won the graduate scholarship. From 1940 to 1943, he worked for the Ministry of Supply, working on the design and construction of arms factories under tight time pressure. In 1943, his godfather, Patrick Abercrombie, offered Shepheard a job on the Greater London Plan for the postwar development of London. Shepheard then worked for William Holford at the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, and became deputy chief architect for the Stevenage Development Corporation (1947–48).

He started in partnership with Derek Bridgwater and, after Bridgwater retired in 1962, the firm became Shepheard, Epstein and Hunter. He designed houses for London County Council, schools for local authorities and a new hall for Winchester College, teacher training colleges, and buildings for the universities of Keele, Liverpool, Warwick and Oxford, Chelsea College, London, the Open University and the University of Lancaster.

He became best known for many landscape projects such as London Zoo, Bessborough Gardens, Bunhill Fields in the City, the restoration of Vanessa Bell's garden at Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex and various gardens in the United States including Central Green at the University of Pennsylvania campus and the Morris Arboretum. Nikolaus Pevsner asked him to illustrate two books on ducks and woodland birds. He also produced all the line drawings for his own books, Modern Gardens (1953) and Gardens (1969). His painting of Liverpool Docks after bombing is in the Walker Art Gallery.

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