Augustus Burke Shepherd FRCP (1839–1885) was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians[1] who later became the dean of St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington.[2] Shepherd graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford with a B. Med. in 1865. He then became a doctor at St. Mary's, and was notable for delivering the Goulstonian Lectures in 1876.[1][2] His parents lived in St. Leonard's on Sea. He married Amelia Staines (later Amelia Jackson). Shepherd had a tendency to drink too much and died at the age of 46.[3][4]