(b Bristol, 2 July 1910; d London, 18 Dec 1982). English architect and writer. After studying at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, and the Architectural Association, London (AA Dip. 1934), he established his own office with his wife, Jean Shufflebotham (d 1974) and carried out some industrial work during World War II; he also taught at the Architectural Association during this period. In 1947 he went into partnership with a former student, Geoffrey Robson (1918–91). The mainstream Modernist practice of Richard Sheppard, Robson and Partners was a principal beneficiary of the post-war expansion in education in England and specialized almost exclusively in secondary schools, technical colleges and universities in the 1950s and 1960s, becoming recognized within the profession as leaders in the field. Examples of this work, which won 11 awards from the RIBA, include Harrowfield Secondary Boys’ School (1952), Harold Hill, Essex; buildings at Loughborough University (1961–6); Hall of Residence (1964–8), Imperial College of Science and Technology, London; Brunel University (1968–73), Uxbridge; Collingwood College (1974), University of Durham; the City University (1969–76), London; and, perhaps the best known, Churchill College (1974), Cambridge, for which the commission was won in competition in 1959. In these buildings, Sheppard’s firm modified the International Style to develop an English character, using brickwork, a horizontal emphasis and an understanding of the traditional grouping of college buildings around a quadrangle; the latter is best exemplified in Churchill College where several courts are grouped informally around a library. Later work included the partnership’s own office at Parkway (1974), Camden Town, London, where an existing building at the rear of shops was sensitively adapted in an award-winning design. Sheppard retired in 1980 and was knighted in 1981. The practice became Sheppard Robson Architects and expanded into a large, multi-disciplinary firm with work ranging from major office developments and refurbishments to shopping centres and hospitals.