What is Richard Shepherd?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = Sir | name = Richard Shepherd | honorific-suffix = | image = RichardShepherdMP.jpg | caption = At Silver Street Methodist Church in [[Brownhills]], 2007 | office = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Aldridge-Brownhills (UK Parliament constituency)|Aldridge-Brownhills]] | parliament = | term_start = 3 May 1979 | term_end = 30 March 2015 | predecessor = [[Geoff Edge]] | successor = [[Wendy Morton]] | birth_name = Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1942|12|06}} | birth_place = [[Aberdeen]], Scotland | death_date = {{death date|2022|02|19|df=yes}} or<br/>{{death date and age|2022|02|21|1942|12|06|df=yes}} | death_place = | nationality = British | spouse = | party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = [[London School of Economics]] (BSc),<br /> [[Johns Hopkins University]] (MSc) | occupation = | profession = Underwriter | religion = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Sir Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd''' (6 December 1942 – 19<ref name = Telegraph>{{cite news |title=Sir Richard Shepherd, Tory MP and committed Eurosceptic who rebelled over the Maastricht Treaty – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/02/22/sir-richard-shepherd-tory-mp-committed-eurosceptic-rebelled/ |access-date=23 February 2022 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=22 February 2022|url-access = subscription}}</ref> or 21<ref name = Bates>{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/22/sir-richard-shepherd-obituary|title = Sir Richard Shepherd obituary|last = Bates|first = Stephen|date = 22 February 2022|accessdate = 22 February 2022|work = [[The Guardian]]}}</ref> February 2022) was a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conse