George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd PC (19 August 1881-4 December 1954), was a British Labour politician.
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Shepherd was the son of George Robert Shepherd, a tailor of Spalding, Lincolnshire. He did not served in the First World War as one of the conscientious objectors.
After the war he was Assistant National Agent for the Labour Party from 1924 to 1929 and National Agent from 1929 to 1946.
The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Shepherd, of Spalding in the County of Lincoln, becoming one of the few Labour peers in the House of Lords. Shepherd then served in the Labour administration of Clement Attlee as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip) from 1948 to 1949, as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords) in 1949 and as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (Chief Whip in the House of Lords) from 1949 to 1951. The latter year he was also admitted to the Privy Council.
In 1915 he married Ada Newton. They had a son and a daughter.
Lord Shepherd died in December 1954, aged 73, and was succeeded in the barony by his only son Malcolm, who also became a prominent Labour politician.
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by The Lord Walkden |
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard 1949 |
Succeeded by The Lord Lucas of Chilworth |
| Preceded by The Lord Ammon |
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms 1949–1951 |
Succeeded by The Earl Fortescue |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by New Creation |
Baron Shepherd 1946–1954 |
Succeeded by Malcolm Newton Shepherd |