Shepard Ashman Morgan

Shepard Ashman Morgan was an American writer and researcher best remembered for The History of Parliamentary Taxation in England, published in 1911. The book was printed for the Department of Political Science of Williams College and examines how taxation developed in England from early custom into a central part of parliamentary government.

Available catalog records and later reprints suggest that Morgan wrote with a strong interest in constitutional, legal, and financial history. Another work associated with him is Reminiscences of Shepard Ashman Morgan from 1950, which points to a life broad enough to include both scholarship and personal reflection.

Reliable online sources also identify him as living from 1884 to 1968. Clear, confirmed biographical details beyond his writing career are limited in the sources reviewed, so this portrait focuses on what can be stated with confidence: Morgan left behind a careful historical study that still draws readers interested in British political and tax history.