Anthony Shepherd
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Anthony Shepherd (c. 1721-1796) was the Plumian Professor at the University of Cambridge in the 1760-1796 period. He was also notable for publishing astronomical tables at the time, and as a friend of Captain Cook who named the Shepherd Islands after him.
Notably, William Paley studied under Shepherd.
He was an astronomer, was born at Kendal, Westmorland, the elder son of Arthur Shepherd. Following his schooling at Kendal , he was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge, on 27 June 1740, at the age of nineteen. He received the degree of BA in 1744 and proceeded MA from Christ's College in 1747; he became a BD in 1761, and a DD in 1766.
He never married and died at his house in Dean Street, Soho, London, on 15 June 1796.
