Facts: - profession: underwriter - website: www.richardshepherd.org.uk - caption: richard shepherd photographed in september 2007 - successor: wendy morton - party: conservative - predecessor: geoffrey edge - office: member of parliament for aldridge-brownhills - term end: 30 march 2015 - term start: 3 may 1979 - birth date: 6 december 1942 - name: sir richard shepherd - nationality: british - image: richardshepherdmp.jpg - birth place: aberdeen , aberdeenshire , scotland - alma mater: london hopkins university -lrb- msc -rrb- school of economics -lrb- bsc -rrb- , johns Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of richard shepherd .
sir richard charles scrimgeour shepherd -lrb- born 6 december 1942 -rrb- is a conservative politician in the united kingdom .he was member of parliament for the constituency of aldridge-brownhills from 1979 to 2015 .a eurosceptic , shepherd was one of the maastricht rebels that had the whip withdrawn over opposition to john major 's legislation on the european union .shepherd is also a libertarian , and had a three line whip imposed against him by margaret thatcher when he introduced an amendment loosening the official secrets act 1911 .