Editing David Sheppard (section)

==Early life==
Sheppard was born in [[Reigate]] and brought up in [[Charlwood]], [[Surrey]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-96978|title=Sheppard, David Stuart, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool (1929–2005)|first=Godfrey|last=Butland|date=8 January 2009|access-date=7 August 2023|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/96978 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/the-right-rev-lord-sheppard-of-liverpool-527521.html|title=The Right Rev Lord Sheppard of Liverpool: England cricket captain who became Bishop of Liverpool|work=[[The Independent]]|date=7 March 2005|access-date=7 August 2023|quote=David Stuart Sheppard, cricketer and priest: born Reigate, Surrey 6 March 1929; played cricket for Sussex 1947–62 (Captain 1953), England 1950–63 (Captain 1954); ordained deacon 1955, priest 1956; Assistant Curate, St Mary's, Islington 1955–57; Warden, Mayflower Centre, Canning Town 1957–69; Chairman, Evangelical Urban Training Project 1968–75; Bishop Suffragan of Woolwich 1969–75; Chairman, Peckham Settlement 1969–75; Chairman, Martin Luther King Foundation 1970–75; Chairman, Urban Ministry Project 1970–75; Bishop of Liverpool 1975–97; Vice-Chairman, Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Urban Priority Areas 1983–85; Chairman, Central Religious Advisory Committee for BBC and IBA 1989–93; Chairman, General Synod Board for Social Responsibility 1991–96; Chairman, Churches' Enquiry into Unemployment and the Future of Work 1995–97; created 1998 Baron Sheppard of Liverpool; President, Sussex County Cricket Club 2001–02; married 1957 Grace Isaac (one daughter); died West Kirby, Merseyside 5 March 2005}}</ref> His father was a [[solicitor]], and a cousin of [[Tubby Clayton]], founder of [[Toc H]]; his mother was the daughter of the artist and illustrator, [[William James Affleck Shepherd]] (1866–1946).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no97-030945/|title=Shepherd, J. A. (James Affleck)|website=WorldCat Identities|access-date=2019-05-31}}</ref>  His family moved to Sussex after his father died in the late 1930s.

He was educated at Northcliffe House School in [[Bognor Regis]] and then at [[Sherborne School]], [[Dorset]], where his cricketing talent first emerged. After [[National Service]] as a [[second lieutenant]] in the [[Royal Sussex Regiment]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=38392|page=4770|date=27 August 1948}}</ref> he then went to study history at [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge|Trinity Hall]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], in 1947, and started to play [[first-class cricket]].