Richard Shepherd

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 by	Geoff Edge
Succeeded by	Wendy Morton
Personal details
Born	Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd (1942-12-06)6 December 1942 Aberdeen, Scotland
Died	19 February 2022(2022-02-19) (aged 79)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	London School of Economics (BSc) Johns Hopkins University (MS)
Profession	Underwriter

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 A Eurosceptic, Shepherd was one of the Maastricht Rebels that had the whip withdrawn over opposition to Prime Minister John Major's legislation on the European Union.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,^[1] and had a three line whip imposed against him by Margaret Thatcher when he introduced an amendment to loosen the Official Secrets Act 1911.