Edward Shepherd
Edward Shepherd was a prominent London-based English architect and developer in the Georgian period.
Architectural work
Shepherd worked on the following projects, among others:- Cannons, a house for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, in Middlesex.
- Houses in Cavendish Square, London.
- Great Stanmore Rectory, Middlesex.
- Houses in Brook Street, London.
- Houses in St James's Square, London, including No. 4, the Naval & Military Club and a former home of Nancy Astor from 1912 to 1942.
- Palace-fronted buildings for the 1st Duke of Chandos in Grosvenor Square, London.
- Goodman's Fields Theatre, Ayliffe Street, Whitechapel, London.
- Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London; renamed the Royal Opera House in 1892.
- Development of Shepherd Market and adjoining streets in Mayfair, London.
- Houses in South Audley Street, Mayfair, London.
- Work on De Grey Mausoleum, Church of St John the Baptist, Flitton, Bedfordshire.