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(SIR) EDWARD SHEPHERD (1812-78), English historian, 6. Bexley, Kent. He received his education at Eton and Cambridge and was admitted to the bar in 1837. He was made profe or of history in London University in 1840 and chief justice of Ceylon in 1860, in which year the honor of knighthood was conferred upon him. His publications include Rise and Progre of the British Constitution, 1834; History of the Ottoman Turks, 1854-56; and A AHlistory of England, 1869-70. His fame rests chiefly however on his The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, published in 1851, which has become a cla ic of the English-speaking world.