James Shepherd
From Graces Guide
1853 'The gasworks now being erected for the illumination of Rome, under the direction of our energetic countryman, Mr. James Shepherd, engineer, are rapidly progressing. The Giornale di Roma congratulates the inhabitants the advantages which will follow their completion.—The Builder.'[1]
'In the 1850s, for example, the businessman James Shepherd built Rome’s first gasometer on the site of the Circus Maximus and, a decade later, joined with the aptly-named G.H. Fawcett to form the Anglo-Roman Water Company to restore the function of the Aqua Marcia, the longest aqueduct to supply water to the ancient city of Rome.'[2]
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