Godfrey Daniel Bower Shepherd was born in Dundee, Scotland on 27 July 1876. He was articled to John Murray Robertson (1844-1901) in Dundee in 1893 and remained as a draughtsman until 1897. He then worked as an assistant to Alfred Walter Saxon Snell (1860-1949) from 1897 to 1899.
Shepherd qualified as an architect in 1899 and after briefly working in the office of James Sivewright Gibson (1861-1951) and Godfrey Page in London, joined in partnership with John Donald Mills (1872-1958) in Dundee in October 1900 as Mills & Shepheard [or J. D. Mills & G. D. B. Shepherd]. They remained in partnership until Mills' death thirty-seven years later.
In 1919, Herbert Morgan Smail who was the firm's chief draughtsman, joined the firm as a partner, however, the title of the practice remained unchanged. Shepheard was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1907. He died in Dundee on 21 December 1937.
See: Dictionary of Scottish Architects 1660-1980 [link below]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
‘Obituary’. The Builder vol. 153, 31 December 1937 p. 217
‘Obituary’. RIBA Journal 7 February 1938 p. 362