Graham Shepard

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Graham Shepard is the son of E.H. Shepard illustrator of Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows. He was educated at Marlborough College and Oxford. At Marlborough he was a contemporary of John Betjeman and Anthony Blunt, and a close friend of Louis MacNeice. MacNeice's "He had a date" (1943) is loosely based on the life and death of Shepard.

At Oxford he was a contemporary and friend of MacNeice, John Betjeman and Osbert Lancaster.

Following in his father's footsteps he became an illustrator and cartoonist, working for The Illustrated London News

Shepard served in the RNVR during WWII. He was lost with all but one crew member when his ship HMS Polyanthus was sunk by U-Boat 942 on 21st September 1943. He was survived by his wife, Ann Faith Shepard, and his young daughter, Minette.

Shepard's sister, Mary Shepard, also became an illustrator and is most well known for her illustrations of PL Travers' Mary Poppins