Editing Richard Shepherd (section)

{{short description|British politician (1942–2022)}}
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{{EngvarB|date=February 2022}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = Sir
| name                = Richard Shepherd
| honorific-suffix    = 
| image               = RichardShepherdMP.jpg
| caption             = At Silver Street Methodist Church in [[Brownhills]], 2007
| office              = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Aldridge-Brownhills (UK Parliament constituency)|Aldridge-Brownhills]]
| parliament          = 
| term_start          = 3 May 1979
| term_end            = 30 March 2015
| predecessor         = [[Geoff Edge]]
| successor           = [[Wendy Morton]]
| birth_name          = Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd
| birth_date          = {{birth date|df=yes|1942|12|06}}
| birth_place         = [[Aberdeen]], Scotland
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2022|02|19|1942|12|06|df=yes}}
| death_place         = 
| nationality         = British
| spouse              = 
| party               = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
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| alma_mater          = [[London School of Economics]] ([[BSc]])<br />[[Johns Hopkins University]] ([[M. S.|MS]])
| occupation          = 
| profession          = Underwriter
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}}

'''Sir Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd''' (6 December 1942 – 19 February 2022) was a British politician who was [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Aldridge-Brownhills (UK Parliament constituency)|Aldridge-Brownhills]] from 1979 to 2015. A [[Eurosceptic]], Shepherd was one of the [[Maastricht Rebels]] that had the [[whip (politics)|whip]] withdrawn over opposition to Prime Minister [[John Major]]'s legislation on the [[European Union]]. Shepherd was also a libertarian [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Time to stand up and be counted? |newspaper=[[BBC News]] |date=1 December 1998 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/office_life/224584.stm }}</ref> and had a [[three line whip]] imposed against him by [[Margaret Thatcher]] when he introduced an amendment to loosen the [[Official Secrets Act 1911]].