 It was this Henry Shepherd (1816~77) who was to be the last of the Shepherds actively involved in the Company.The death of Henry senior at the age of eighty-two occurred in 1862 and although his own son was not a businessman of the same determination, the firm's expansion continued adequately with John Mares, who had come to the financial assistance of the Shepherd Brewery during the recession of the mid-1840s and continued as the impetus behind "Shepherd and Mares" until Percy Beale Neame joined the Brewery in 1864.Mares had seen the potential of the Brewery's growth with the arrival of the long delayed railway service in 1858.