Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd (born 6 December 1942, in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is currently a Member of Parliament, representing the constituency of Aldridge-Brownhills.
Shepherd was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and educated at Isleworth Grammar School (now Isleworth and Syon School) in Isleworth. He then went on to the London School of Economics where he received a Bachelor of Scienc...
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Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd (born 6 December 1942, in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is currently a Member of Parliament, representing the constituency of Aldridge-Brownhills.
Shepherd was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and educated at Isleworth Grammar School (now Isleworth and Syon School) in Isleworth. He then went on to the London School of Economics where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, and where he studied with and became a friend of Robert Kilroy-Silk. At the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, Shepherd received an Master of Science in Economics.
Shepherd was a director of the retail food businesses Partridges of Sloane Street and Shepherd Foods in London. He was then was an underwriter at Lloyd's of London from 1974-94.
Shepherd contested the constituency of Nottingham East in February 1974, where he was defeated by the Labour Party...
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