# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-shepherd
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:33:09.063Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-shepherd"
name: "Richard Shepherd"
slug: "richard-shepherd"
description: "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 A Eurosceptic, Shepherd was one of the Maastricht Rebels that had the whip withdrawn over opposition to Prime Minister John Major's legislation on the European Union.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."
tagline: "British politician (1942-2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RichardShepherdMP.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1942-12-06"
deathDate: "2022-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.476422666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.richardshepherd.org.uk/"
sources:
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    title: "Richard Shepherd (bolitan)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "রিচার্ড শেফার্ড"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shepherd_(Politiker)"
    title: "Richard Shepherd (Politiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shepherd"
    title: "Richard Shepherd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shepherd"
    title: "Richard Shepherd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shepherd"
    title: "Richard Shepherd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shepherd"
    title: "Richard Shepherd"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump