Graham Shepard

{{short description|English cartoonist}}

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Graham Howard Shepard (1907–20 September 1943){{cite web|url=http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/is/enroom/illustrators/shepard.htm |title=Resource Guide – Ernest Howard Shepard |access-date=23 May 2008 |author=Millie Arnet |author2=Michelle Frisque |author3=Beth Kean |author4=Elizabeth T. Mahoney |work=The Elizabeth Nesbitt Room Illustrators Project |publisher=University of Pittsburgh ULS |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203231340/http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/is/enroom/illustrators/shepard.htm |archive-date=3 February 2013 }}

was an English illustrator and cartoonist.

He was the son of Ernest H. Shepard, the illustrator of Winnie-the-Pooh and The Wind in the Willows. He was educated at Marlborough College and Lincoln College, Oxford.{{cite book |last1=Allison |first1=Jonathan |title=Letters of Louis MacNeice}} At Marlborough he was a member of the college's secret 'Society of Amici'Paths of Progress: A History of Marlborough College by Rt Hon Peter Brooke MP and Thomas Hinde where he found himself a contemporary of John Betjeman and Anthony Blunt, and a close friend of Louis MacNeice. MacNeice's "He had a date" (1943) is loosely based on the life and death of Shepard.

At Oxford he was also a contemporary and friend of MacNeice and Osbert Lancaster.

Following in his father's footsteps, he became an illustrator and cartoonist, working for the Illustrated London News.

Shepard served in the RNVR during World War II. Lieutenant Shepard was lost along with all but one crew member when their ship, HMS Polyanthus, was sunk by the German submarine U-952 in the mid-Atlantic on 21 September 1943.

In fact, the only known survivor of Polyanthus also drowned on the morning of 23 September when another German submarine, {{GS|U-666||2}}, sank {{HMS|Itchen|K227|6}}, the ship that had rescued him.{{cite web |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |title=HMS Polyanthus (K 47) |url=http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5489.html |access-date=12 January 2025 |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net}}

Shepard was survived by his wife, Ann Faith Shepard, and their young daughter, Minette.

Shepard's younger sister, Mary Shepard, also became an illustrator, and is best known for her illustrations of P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins.