R. H. W. Shepherd

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 was ordained as a minister in the United Free Church of Scotland in 1918 and sent to South Africa as a missionary in 1920.

[1] He went from South Africa to Scotland in 1955 and served as Moderator in 1959/60 being succeeded by Very Rev J. H. S. Burleigh.

His role during the year included membership of the Monckton Commission looking at the Federation of Rhodesia with Nyasaland.

He returned to South Africa in 1960/61 as minister of the Presbyterian Church in Alice.

Lovedale Mission Station, South Africa
Memorial plaque to Rev R H W Shepherd in Greyfriars Kirkyard , commemorating the new gate to George Heriot's School added in 1959