Sir Horatio Hale Shephard (1842 – 19 April 1921) was a British lawyer who served as the Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency in 1885 and acted as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in 1898.
Horatio Hale Shephard was the son of John Shephard and Harriett Strachey Harper Shephard. Harriett Harper Shephard was a daughter of Tristram Harper and Mary Jellicoe Harper, sister of Henry John Chitty Harper, and a great-great-granddaughter of John Strachey. Horatio H. Shephard educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He studied law at the Inner Temple and was called to the bar in 1867.
In January 1888, he was appointed officiating judge of the Madras High Court and confirmed in July 1889. He also officiated as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in 1898, before retiring in July 1901.
Shephard married, in 1876, Agnes Rideout, daughter of Major-General J. W. Rideout. Their second son, Gordon Strachey Shephard, rose to the rank of brigadier-general, but was killed in World War I.