Richard Shepherd
| Sir Richard Shepherd | |
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Richard Shepherd photographed in September 2007
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Member of Parliament for Aldridge-Brownhills |
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In office 3 May 1979 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Geoffrey Edge |
| Succeeded by | Wendy Morton |
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6 December 1942 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater |
London School of Economics (BSc), Johns Hopkins University (MSc) |
| Profession | Underwriter |
Sir Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd (born 6 December 1942) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for the constituency of Aldridge-Brownhills from 1979 to 2015.
A Eurosceptic, Shepherd was one of the Maastricht Rebels that had the whip withdrawn over opposition to John Major's legislation on the European Union. Shepherd is also a libertarian, and had a three line whip imposed against him by Margaret Thatcher when he introduced an amendment loosening the Official Secrets Act 1911.
Shepherd was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and educated at Isleworth Grammar School (now Isleworth and Syon School) in Isleworth. He then went on to the London School of Economics where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, and where he studied with and became a friend of Robert Kilroy-Silk. At the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, Shepherd received a Master of Science in Economics.
Shepherd was a director of the retail food businesses Partridges of Sloane Street and Shepherd Foods in London. He was then an underwriter at Lloyd's of London from 1974–94.
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