Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd

Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd (born September 27, 1918 - April 5, 2001 ), was a British Labor politician and peer who was Leader of the House of Lords and a member of the Privy under Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan Councils was.

Early years

Shepherd was the son of George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd . He was born in Blackburn , Lancashire and attended school in Saffron Walden . During the Second World War he served in supply units in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, most recently as a captain .

After the war, Shepherd worked in Malaya and Singapore . When his employer's headquarters moved to London in 1958 , he and his family moved to the United Kingdom.

Political career

After the death of his father in 1954, he inherited his title Baron Shepherd , of Spalding in the County of Lincoln , and the associated seat in the House of Lords . At that time only holders of hereditary titles had a seat in the House of Lords. The overwhelming majority tended towards the Conservative Party , only around 25 to 30, like Shepherd, belonged to the Labor Party.

Shepherd became Deputy Whip in 1960, and then Whip for his party in the House of Lords four years later. After Labor won the British general election in 1964 and provided the government, Shepherd was named Captain of the Honorable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms for the ruling party . Three years later he moved to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as Minister of State . With the Conservative victory in the British general election in 1970 , he lost his office and was again Whip in the House of Lords.

After another change of government in October 1974 Shepherd took over the office of Lord Privy Seal in the Wilson government, which he held until 1976.

After his resignation, he switched to business, where he was, on the one hand, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rudy Sternberg's Sterling Group , Baron Plurenden . Shepherd was also chairman of the Medical Research Council from 1978 to 1982 . From 1979 until privatization, he headed the state-owned National Bus Company and increased its earnings significantly.

In addition, Shepherd was still active in the House of Lords. After he lost his automatic entitlement to a seat in the House of Lords when the House of Lords Act 1999 came into force on November 11, 1999, he was appointed Baron Shepherd of Spalding , of Spalding in the County of Lincolnshire on November 16, 1999 Life Peer Appointed so that he could continue his political work.

family

Shepherd married Allison Wilson Redmond in 1941, who died in 1998. With her he had two sons. The title Baron Shepherd inherited on his death in 2001, the older son Graeme .

Web links

• Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd on thepeerage.com
• Mr Malcolm Shepherd at Hansard (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
George Shepherd	Baron Shepherd 1954-2001	Graeme Shepherd
David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham	Lord Privy Seal 1974-1976	Fred Peart, Baron Peart