Eric Shepherd

>R. A(loysius) Eric Shepherd (1892-1955) was the son of Dr Ambrose Shepherd, a famous Free Church preacher. He was educated at Glasgow Academy and Christ Church College, Oxford. He was received into Catholicism while still at Oxford in the Church of St Aloysius - hence his adoption of this name. He was Professor of English Literature at the University of Malta for several years in the 1920s but did not like life abroad so returned home. In the '30s he …