Richard Shepherd

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Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd (born 6 December 1942) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Shepherd was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and educated at the London School of Economics and Johns Hopkins University in the United States.

He was formerly an assistant to Sir Teddy Taylor but was has been Member of Parliament for Aldridge-Brownhills since 1979. He was selected as Backbencher of the Year in 1985 and the Spectator's Parliamentarian of the Year in 1995, and in 1989 he was identified by a Mori poll of his fellow MPs to be one of the ten most effective MPs currently sitting in Parliament.

He was one of the Maastricht rebels and is known to have libertarian leanings. He had close links to fellow Maastricht rebels Nicholas Budgen and Christopher Gill, even giving the eulogy at Budgen's funeral at Lichfield Cathedral.

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