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Shepherd was born at Mintonville, near Suffolk, Virginia, the son of Thomas Swepson Shepherd (1811–1860) and his first wife Ann Eliza Browne (1813–1852).After the outbreak of the American Civil War, James, not quite 14 years old, claimed to be eighteen and joined Company A, 16th Regiment, of the Virginia Infantry, as a private.
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From 1969 to 1972, James Shepherd held the post of lecturer in biochemistry and from 1972 to 1988, Senior Lecturer in the University of Glasgow, and in 1988 was appointed Professor and head of the Department of Vascular Biochemistry in the University of Glasgow and was to become the principal investigator in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study (WOSCOPS), examining the levels of fat ...
James Edward Shepard (November 3, 1875 – October 6, 1947) was an American pharmacist, civil servant and educator, the founder of what became the North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina.
In March 2024, Shepherd was appointed head coach at Dundee United, after Graeme Hart was sacked with the side struggling near the foot of the table in their first-ever season in SWPL1. [15] [16] Two months later, the team retained their place in the top division by defeating Kilmarnock in the relegation/promotion play-off. [17]
Educated at the High School of Dundee and the University of St Andrews from 1913, he took a first in classics (MA 1917). His studies were interrupted by service in France with the Royal Engineers (1916–1918). [1]
Robert Henry Wishart Shepherd (1888–1971) was a 20th-century Scots-born minister and biblical scholar serving in South Africa firstly for the United Free Church of Scotland then for the Church of Scotland. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1959. He was Director of the Lovedale Mission from 1930 to 1955.
James attended the Parish School in Aberlemno for seven years, to age 12, [2] after which he was employed as a shepherd. The local Presbyterian church gave him textbooks, and he named his sheep after Greek philosophers. [1] After a few years he moved to Dundee, studied in the high school, [3] and apprenticed as a machinist.