Editing David Sheppard

{{Short description|English cleric and cricketer (1929–2005)}}
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| name             = The Lord Sheppard of Liverpool
| image            = Bishop-David-Sheppard.jpg
| caption          = Sheppard in 1969
| birth_name       = David Stuart Sheppard
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1929|3|6|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Reigate]], Surrey, England
| death_date       = {{death date and age|2005|3|5|1929|3|6|df=y}}
| death_place      = [[West Kirby]], Merseyside, England
| parents          = 
| spouse           = Grace Isaac<ref name=r1/>
| children         = Jenny Sinclair<ref name=r1>{{cite news|url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/archbishop-desmond-tutu-pays-tribute-3374372|title=Archbishop Desmond Tutu pays tribute to Grace Sheppard at Liverpool Cathedral thanksgiving service|work=Liverpool Echo|last=Miles|first=Tina|date=9 May 2011|access-date=7 August 2023}}</ref>
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| title            = [[Bishop of Liverpool]]
| church           = [[Church of England]]
| diocese          = [[Anglican Diocese of Liverpool|Diocese of Liverpool]]
| enthroned        = 1975
| term_end         = 1997 (retired)
| predecessor      = [[Stuart Blanch, Baron Blanch|Stuart Blanch]]
| successor        = [[James Jones (bishop)|James Jones]]
| other_post       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[life peer]]<br />1998–2005
* [[Bishop of Woolwich]]<br />1969–1975
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| ordination       = 29 September 1955 (deacon); 29 September 1956 (priest)
| ordained_by      = [[William Wand]] (deacon); [[Henry Montgomery Campbell]] (priest) 
| consecration     = 18 October 1969
| consecrated_by   = [[Michael Ramsey]]
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| occupation       = [[Cricket]]er
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| name              = David Sheppard
| batting           = Right-handed
| bowling           = [[Slow left arm orthodox]]
| international     = true
| country           = England
| testdebutdate     = 12 August
| testdebutyear     = 1950
| testdebutagainst  = West Indies
| lasttestdate      = 19 March
| lasttestyear      = 1963
| lasttestagainst   = New Zealand
| testcap           = 353
| club2             = [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]]
| year2             = 1950–1952
| club1             = [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]]
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| source            = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/20159.html Cricinfo
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'''David Stuart Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool''' (6 March 1929 – 5 March 2005) was a [[Church of England]] [[bishop]] who played [[cricket]] for [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]] and [[English cricket team|England]] in his youth, before serving as [[Bishop of Liverpool]] from 1975 to 1997. Sheppard remains the only ordained minister to have played [[Test cricket]],<ref name="Cap">{{cite book |title=If The Cap Fits |last=Bateman |first=Colin |year=1993 |publisher=Tony Williams Publications |isbn=1-869833-21-X |page= 146 }}<!--|access-date=28 April 2011--></ref> though others such as [[Tom Killick]] were ordained after playing Tests.

==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]].

== Cricketing career ==
Sheppard played cricket for [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] (blue 1950, 1951 and 1952; captain 1952), [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]] (captain 1953) and [[English cricket team|England]]. He made his Test debut against West Indies in August 1950, having scored heavily for Cambridge against the tourists earlier that summer.  He toured Australia as an [[undergraduate]] with [[Freddie Brown (cricketer)|Freddie Brown]] in [[English cricket team in Australia in 1950–51|1950–51]] without success. In 1952 he topped the English batting averages, scoring 2,262 runs at an average of 64.62, including a record 1,281 runs and 7 centuries for [[Cambridge University]]. His career total for Cambridge University, 3,545, was also a record. He hit 1,000 runs in a season six times, reaching 2,000 three times (highest 2,270, average 45.40, in 1953). He hit three double centuries, one for Sussex and two for Cambridge University (highest 239 not out for Cambridge University v Worcestershire at Worcester in 1952).

He reached his highest Test score, 119, against India at the Oval in 1952.<ref>{{cite web |title=4th Test, The Oval, Aug 14 - 19 1952, India tour of England |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/india-tour-of-england-1952-62273/england-vs-india-4th-test-62740/full-scorecard |website=Cricinfo |access-date=31 December 2021}}</ref>

Sussex were the runners-up in the [[County Championship]] in 1953, and Sheppard was one of the [[Wisden Cricketers of the Year]] that year. In 1954 he captained England in two Tests against [[Pakistan national cricket team|Pakistan]] in the absence of [[Len Hutton]]. He won one Test and drew the other, but the series ended in a 1–1 draw. Sheppard was a favourite with the Old Guard at Lord's, who had wanted him to captain the [[English cricket team in Australia in 1954–55|tour of Australia in 1954–55]] instead of the [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]] professional Hutton, but this came to naught. Sheppard was already progressing his clerical career and declined to tour unless required as a captain. In 1956 he was recalled to play Australia and made 113 in the Fourth Test at Old Trafford, where [[Jim Laker]] famously took 19 wickets and England won by an innings.<ref>{{cite web |title=4th Test, Manchester, Jul 26 - 31 1956, Australia tour of England |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-tour-of-england-1956-61355/england-vs-australia-4th-test-62814/full-scorecard |website=Cricinfo |access-date=31 December 2021}}</ref>

He was a staunch opponent of [[apartheid]] in South Africa, and one of many signatories in a letter to ''The Times'' on 17 July 1958 opposing 'the policy of apartheid' in international sport and defending 'the principle of racial equality which is embodied in the Declaration of the Olympic Games'.<ref>Brown and Hogsbjerg, ''Apartheid is not a game'', 16.</ref> He refused to play against the touring South Africans in 1960, refused to watch the touring South Africans in 1965 and was a vocal opponent of the proposed MCC tour in 1968–69 which [[D'Oliveira affair|was ultimately cancelled]] after the South African government refused to allow [[Basil D'Oliveira]] to play. In 1970 he supported the Fair Cricket Campaign against the proposed 1970 tour of England by South African cricket team.<ref>Brown and Hogsbjerg, ''Apartheid is not a game'', 68.</ref>

{{blockquote|On top of all this we were besieged by [[clergymen]] eager to meet [[the Reverend]] David Sheppard&nbsp;... In no time at all the news in the press concerning the [[English national cricket team|England team]] centred on&nbsp;... where David Sheppard was sermonizing.
:[[Fred Trueman]]<ref>[[Fred Trueman|Trueman, Fred]] (2004) ''As It Was, The Memoirs of Fred Trueman'', Pan Books. pp. 274, 227–278. {{ISBN|140504148X}}</ref>}}

Sheppard was willing to take a [[sabbatical]] from his [[Mission (Christianity)|church mission]] in the [[East End of London|East End]] in order to tour [[English cricket team in Australia in 1962–63|Australia in 1962–63]]. His many friends at [[Lord's]] wanted him to captain the Fourth and Fifth Tests against Pakistan in 1962, but Sheppard had not played serious cricket for years. He made 112 for the [[Gentlemen v Players|Gentlemen]] and was chosen for the tour, but [[Ted Dexter]] was confirmed as captain for the remainder of the home series and the forthcoming tour of Australia. Sheppard agreed to tour and "the presence in the pulpit of David Sheppard...filled the Anglican cathedral of every state capital from Perth to Brisbane"<ref>[[E.W. Swanton|Swanton, E.W.]] (1975) ''Swanton in Australia, with MCC 1946–1975'', Fontana. p. 124. {{ISBN|0002162369}}.</ref> Sheppard made 0 and 113 in the victorious Second Test at [[Melbourne Cricket Ground|Melbourne]], but dropped two catches and was dropped himself when he was on a pair in the second innings. He ran out his captain [[Ted Dexter]], took a risky single for the winning run and was run out by [[Bill Lawry]] so that [[Ken Barrington]] had to come out to see [[Colin Cowdrey]] make the winning single. Although he held some good catches on the tour "the ones I dropped were at such vital moments",<ref name="ReferenceA"/> [[Richie Benaud]] and [[Bill Lawry]] in the Second Test and [[Neil Harvey]] in the Fourth Test off Trueman, who told him "The only time your hands are together are on Sunday".<ref>Trueman, Fred (2004) ''As It Was, The Memoirs of Fred Trueman'', Pan Books. p. 282. {{ISBN|140504148X}}</ref> This is a story that increased with the telling, another version being "Pretend it's Sunday Reverend, and keep your hands together",<ref name="ReferenceA">Freddi, Criss (1996) ''The Guinness Book of Cricket Blunders'', Guinness Publishing. pp. 168–169. {{ISBN|0851126243}}</ref> or that it was Sheppard who said "Sorry Fred, I should have kept my hands together".<ref>[[Fred Titmus|Titmus, Fred]] and Hildred, Stafford (2005) ''My Life in Cricket'', John Blake Publishing Ltd. p. 116. {{ISBN|184454124X}}</ref> One couple in Australia asked Mrs Sheppard if the Reverend could [[Infant baptism|christen]] their baby, but she advised them not to as he was bound to drop it.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

Sheppard played his last Tests against New Zealand in early 1963.

==Ecclesiastical career==
Sheppard was converted to [[evangelicalism|evangelical Christianity]] whilst at Cambridge, influenced by [[Donald Grey Barnhouse]], and trained for the ministry at [[Ridley Hall]], Cambridge from 1953 to 1955, where he attended the lectures of [[Owen Chadwick]] and [[Maurice Wiles]], and was much impressed by a visiting lecturer, [[Donald Soper]]. He was involved with the [[Iwerne camps]] ministry of [[E. J. H. Nash]].<ref>Manwaring, Randle (2002) ''From Controversy to Co-Existence: Evangelicals in the Church of England 1914–1980''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 58. {{ISBN|0521892473}}</ref> He was ordained in 1955, serving his title as curate at [[St Mary's Church, Islington]], but continued to play Test cricket sporadically until 1963, being the first ordained minister to do so.  From 1957, he was warden of the [[Dockland Settlements|Mayflower Family Centre]] in [[Canning Town]].
 
Sheppard became [[Bishop of Woolwich]] (a [[suffragan bishop]] in the [[Anglican Diocese of Southwark|Diocese of Southwark]]) in 1969,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44953|page=10317|date=9 October 1969}}</ref> and [[Bishop of Liverpool]] in 1975.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=46566|page=5873|date=6 May 1975}}</ref>  When installed as Bishop of Liverpool, he was the youngest diocesan bishop in England.  He was an active broadcaster and campaigner, especially on the subjects of poverty and social reform in the [[inner city|inner cities]], and opposition to apartheid and the tour to England by the [[South African cricket team in England in 1970 (proposed)|South African cricket team]] scheduled to take place in 1970.

Sheppard worked closely with the Roman Catholic [[Archbishop of Liverpool]], [[Derek Worlock]], on these issues, and was often an outspoken critic of [[Premiership of Margaret Thatcher|Margaret Thatcher's government]].  The Queen visited both Liverpool cathedrals in 1978 to celebrate the long-delayed completion of the Anglican cathedral, and [[Pope John Paul II]] visited both cathedrals during his tour of England in 1982.  The bishops worked together in the aftermath of the [[1981 Toxteth riots]], the [[Heysel Stadium disaster|1985 Heysel stadium disaster]] and the [[Hillsborough disaster|1989 Hillsborough Stadium disaster]].  Sheppard also worked with other church leaders in Liverpool, including the Methodist chairman John Newton. He gave the [[Dimbleby Lecture]] in 1984, on "The Other Britain".  In 1985 he was appointed as a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Urban Priority Areas, culminating in the publishing of the controversial report "[[Faith in the City]]". He was national president of Family Service Units from 1987 and chaired the religious advisory committee for the BBC and IBA from 1989 to 1993.

Sheppard retired in 1997, and in the 1998 [[New Year Honours]] was elevated to a [[life peerage]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=54993 |supp=y|page=1|date=30 December 1997}}</ref> taking the title '''Baron Sheppard of Liverpool''', of [[West Kirby]] in the County of [[Merseyside]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=55048|page=1975|date=19 February 1998}}</ref> He sat in the [[House of Lords]] on the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] benches.

==Awards and tributes==
* He was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' in 1960 when he was surprised by [[Eamonn Andrews]] at the Islington Boys' Club.
* In 2001 Sheppard was named President of Sussex County Cricket Club.

==Writing==
Beginning in the mid-1950s, Sheppard wrote a weekly column for ''[[Woman's Own]]'', 520 words a week, "trying to make one point that had something to say about the everyday God in an accessible way". His column continued for 17 years.<ref>Sheppard, David (2002) ''Steps Along Hope Street''. Hodder & Stoughton, London. p. 33. {{ISBN|0340861177}}</ref> He wrote several books: ''Built As a City'' in 1974 about urban mission, ''Bias to the Poor'' in 1983, and two autobiographies, ''Parson's Pitch'' in 1964 and ''Steps Along [[Hope Street, Liverpool|Hope Street]]'' in 2002 (named after the street in Liverpool which links the [[Liverpool Cathedral|Anglican]] and [[Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral|Roman Catholic]] cathedrals).

==Personal life==
In 1957 Sheppard married Grace Isaac, a daughter of a clergyman, whom he had met at Cambridge. Their only child, Jenny (now Sinclair), was born in 1962.

In December 2003, Sheppard announced that he had been suffering from [[colorectal cancer]] for the previous two years. He died on 5 March 2005, the day before what would have been his 76th birthday. He was survived by his wife and daughter. After a funeral near his retirement home at [[West Kirby]] on the Wirral, his ashes were buried in [[Liverpool Cathedral]], with a memorial service at the cathedral in May 2005. Lady Sheppard died of cancer on 10 November 2010, aged 75.<ref>Bergin, Claire (12 November 2010) [http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=17102 "Archbishop Kelly pays tribute to Lady Grace Sheppard"]. ''Independent Catholic News''</ref>

==Legacy==
On [[Whit Sunday]], 11 May 2008, during the Christian Walk of Witness, a memorial statue, the [[Sheppard-Worlock Statue]] in the form of two bronze doors, was unveiled to honour both Sheppard and Archbishop Derek Worlock. The memorial was designed by notable sculptor [[Stephen Broadbent]] and funded by public donations. The memorial is situated halfway down Hope Street, in sight of the Anglican and Catholic cathedrals in Liverpool.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2008/05/12/anglican-and-catholic-leaders-unveil-statue-tribute-64375-20894568|title=Anglican and Catholic leaders unveil statue tribute|publisher=[[Liverpool Daily Post]]|date=12 May 2008|first=Richard|last=Down|access-date=12 May 2008}}</ref>

The official biography of Bishop Sheppard by Andrew Bradstock of the University of Winchester,<ref>{{cite web |title=Professor Andrew Bradstock |url=https://www.winchester.ac.uk/about-us/leadership-and-governance/staff-directory/staff-profiles/bradstock.php |website=University of Winchester |access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref> entitled ''Batting for the Poor'', was published by [[SPCK]] on 21 November 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=David Sheppard: Batting for the Poor |url=https://spckpublishing.co.uk/david-sheppard-batting-for-the-poor |website=SPCK |access-date=8 December 2019}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
===by David Sheppard===
*''Parson's Pitch'' (1964) - autobiography. Published by Hodder & Stoughton
*''Built As a City'' (1974) Published by Hodder & Stoughton
*''Bias to the Poor'' (1983). Published by Hodder & Stoughton
*''With Christ in the Wilderness: Following Lent Together'' (1990), written with Derek Worlock. Published by Barnabas
*''Steps Along Hope Street: My Life in Cricket, the Church and the Inner City'' (2002) - autobiography. Published by Hodder & Stoughton

===by other authors===
*Bradstock, Andrew.  ''Batting for the Poor: The Authorized Biography of David Sheppard''.  SPCK Publishing. 2019. 
* Brown, Geoff and Hogsbjerg, Christian. ''Apartheid is not a Game: Remembering the Stop the Seventy Tour campaign.'' London: Redwords, 2020. {{ISBN|9781912926589}}.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041012085446/http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PLAYERS/ENG/S/SHEPPARD_DS_01000879/ ''Cricinfo'' page for David Sheppard]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1260179.stm ''BBC News'' obituary]
*[https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,1431823,00.html Obituary from ''The Guardian'' newspaper]
*[https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVA3KSL5PYIJ4X7HIYVCWM3OFI0R-CRICKET-WEDDING-OF-DAVID-SHEPPARD "Cricket: Wedding of David Sheppard"] at [[British Pathé]]
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