Richard Shepherd

Sir Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd (6 December 1942 – 19 February 2022) was a British politician who was Member of Parliament for Aldridge-Brownhills from 1979 to 2015. A Eurosceptic, Shepherd was one of the Maastricht Rebels that had the whip withdrawn over opposition to Prime Minister John Major's legislation on the European Union. Shepherd was also a libertarian Conservative, and had a three line whip imposed against him by Margaret Thatcher when he introduced an amendment to loosen the Official Secrets Act 1911.

Sir
Richard Shepherd
At Silver Street Methodist Church in Brownhills, 2007
Member of Parliament
for Aldridge-Brownhills
In office
3 May 1979  30 March 2015
Preceded byGeoff Edge
Succeeded byWendy Morton
Personal details
Born
Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd

(1942-12-06)6 December 1942
Aberdeen, Scotland
Died19 February 2022(2022-02-19) (aged 79)
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
Alma materLondon School of Economics (BSc)
Johns Hopkins University (MSc)
ProfessionUnderwriter
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