# Richard Shepherd

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 A Eurosceptic, Shepherd was one of the Maastricht Rebels that had the whip withdrawn over opposition to Prime Minister John Major's legislation on the European Union.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

*British politician (1942-2022)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/richard-shepherd

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1942-12-06
- **Died:** 2022-02-19
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 40.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 7.5 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 55.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.richardshepherd.org.uk/

## Sources
- [Richard Shepherd (bolitan)](https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shepherd_(bolitan))
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- [Richard Shepherd (Politiker)](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shepherd_(Politiker))
- [Richard Shepherd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shepherd)
- [Richard Shepherd](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shepherd)
- [Richard Shepherd](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shepherd)
- [Richard Shepherd](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shepherd)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q392533)

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