Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd
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The Right Honourable The Lord Shepherd PC |
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Leader of the House of Lords Lord Privy Seal |
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In office 4 March 1974 – 10 September 1976 |
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Harold Wilson James Callaghan |
| Preceded by | The Lord Windlesham |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Peart |
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Chief Whip of the House of Lords Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms |
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In office 21 October 1964 – 29 July 1967 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | The Earl St Aldwyn |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Beswick |
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| Born | 27 September 1918 |
| Died | 5 April 2001 (aged 82) |
| Political party | Labour |
Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd (Hereditary) and also Baron Shepherd of Spalding (Life Peerage) (27 September 1918 – 5 April 2001), was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
Shepherd was the son of the Labour politician George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd. With the House of Lords Act 1999, the right of the hereditary peers of an automatic seat in the House of Lords was removed, so Shepherd was created a life peer as Baron Shepherd of Spalding, of Spalding in the County of Lincolnshire to keep his seat.
Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, Malcolm Shepherd was educated at the Lower School of John Lyon and the Friends' School, now known as Walden School, an independent school in the market town of Saffron Walden in Essex. He was commissioned in the Royal Army Service Corps in 1941 and served in North Africa, Sicily and Italy rising to the rank of Captain and transferring to what was known as 'Special Services'. Initially his mother and Father were against him joining the Army because of their pacifist convictions.
After the end of the Second World War, Shepherd, together with his wife Allison, went to Singapore as an employee of a British trading company. Later Shepherd purchased majority shares in the firm of Fielding, Brown and Finch working in Malaya and Singapore. When his father died in 1954 he took six months leave, came to the UK to settle his father's affairs and made his maiden speech in the House of Lords before returning to the Far East and resuming his business career. In 1958 his company headquarters moved to London and Shepherd moved himself and his family to the UK.
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