Benjamin Shepherd
Benjamin Shepherd was apparently part of Sauer, Eyre & Shepherd, a merchant listed at Norfolk Street in 1797. By 1811, Eyre & Shepherd was active at that address. Five years later, Benjamin alone was listed as a merchant in Norfolk Street (though by 1822 he was in Eyre Street). Few details of his career have survived. He died at St Petersburg in September 1823 (his death was reported in The Sheffield Independent on 22 November ). Shepherd’s Eyre Street property was offered fo....
