# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-sheppard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:56:51.658Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-sheppard"
name: "David Sheppard"
slug: "david-sheppard"
description: "David Stuart Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool was a Church of England bishop who played cricket for Sussex and 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, though others such as Tom Killick were ordained after playing Tests."
tagline: "English cleric and cricketer (1929-2005)"
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country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1929-03-06"
deathDate: "2005-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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    title: "David Sheppard"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump