MEMORIAL FUND

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 November 1938, Page 8

MEMORIAL FUND

NOTED ENGLISH PREACHER MR BRUCE A TRUSTEE LONDON, 26th November. The High Commissioner for Australia, Mr S. M. Bruce, has been included in the six trustees appointed to administer the “Dick Sheppard Memorial Fund” for promoting works in which the deceased Dr. Sheppard was interested. Dr. Hugh Richard (“Dick”) Lawrie Sheppard, who died on 31st October, 1937, was successively vicar of St. Mar-tin-in-the-h ieids, Dean of Canterbury and Canon and Precantor of St. Paul’s. He was a philanthropist as well as a popular preacher. A Church Fellowship he startel was a great boon to friendless young people who had gone to London to work. Dick ’ Sheppard acted also as a chaplain (o the forces in France until his health broke down. His services at St. Martin’s were broadcast regularly and hi became known to thousands as the “Wireless Parson.” Although he was a High Churchman, his pulpit was always open to preachers of other denominations. A devoted social worker, Dr. Sheppard initiated the Winter Distress League, which did excellent service for family men in need of work by its employment schemes. In 1921 lie was lecturer on pastoral theology and Select Preacher at Cambridge. He was also honorary secretary of the Life and Liberty Movement.