Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd (born 6 December 1942, Aberdeen) Educated at the London School of Economics and Johns Hopkins University is a politician in the United Kingdom. Owned By Jorge. ... This article is about the year. ... Aberdeens location in Scotland Aberdeen (Obar Dheathain in Scottish Gaelic) is Scotlands third largest city, with a population of 212,125. ... The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or simply the LSE, is a specialist university based in London, often regarded as the worlds most prestigious social science institution with unrivalled diversity. ... The Johns Hopkins University is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland. ...

He was formerly an assistant to Sir Teddy Taylor but was elected to Parliament for Aldridge and Brownhills in 1979. He has been Conservative Party member of Parliament for Aldridge-Brownhills since 1979. He was selected as Backbencher of the Year in 1985 and the Spectator's Parliamentarian of the Year in 1995, and in 1989 he was identified by a Mori poll of his fellow MPs to be one of the ten most effective MPs currently sitting in Parliament. He was one of the Maastricht rebels. He is known to have libertarian leanings and to be a hardline right winger. He had close links to fellow Maastricht rebels Nicholas Budgen and Christopher Gill, even giving the eulogy at Budgen's funeral at Lichfield Cathedral. Sir Edward MacMillan Taylor, usually Teddy Taylor (born April 18, 1937) is a British politician, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Rochford and Southend East. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Aldridge-Brownhills is a British parliamentary constituency in the West Midlands consisting of the wards of: Aldridge North and Walsall Wood, Aldridge South and Central, Brownhills, Hatherton Rushall, Pelsall and Streetly. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... The Spectator is the name of several publications, of which the following have articles on Wikipedia: The Spectator (1711), which is the one most often meant in historical contexts, edited by Addison and Steele The Spectator (1828) The Spectator is also the name of: the student newspaper of Columbia University... In the politics of the United Kingdom, the Maastricht Rebels were MPs of the then governing Conservative Party who refused to support the government of John Major in a House of Commons vote to secure ratification by the United Kingdom of the Maastricht treaty (Treaty on European Union). ... In the politics of the United Kingdom, the Maastricht Rebels were MPs of the then governing Conservative Party who refused to support the government of John Major in a House of Commons vote to secure ratification by the United Kingdom of the Maastricht treaty (Treaty on European Union). ... Nicholas William Budgen (November 3, 1937–October 26, 1998) was a British politician. ... Christopher Gill (born October 28, United Kingdom. ... Lichfield Cathedral June 2005 Lichfield is a small city in Staffordshire, 110 miles northwest of London and 14 miles north of Birmingham. ...

External links

• Conservatives.com - Richard Shepherd MP official biography
• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Richard Shepherd MP
• They WorkForYou.com - Richard Shepherd MP
• Aldridge-Brownhills Conservative Association constituency