William Stanley Shepherd (12 March 1910 – 11 October 2002) was a British

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politician. Shepherd was educated at Crewe and worked as a manufacturing chemist and company director and director of the

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Chamber of Commerce. He served with the army in France, Belgium and the Netherlands during

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, reaching the rank of Lieutenant. Shepherd was elected

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for Bucklow at the

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and for Cheadle from 1950 until 1966, when he was defeated by the

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Dr. Michael Winstanley. In Parliament, Shepherd served as a senior member of the Conservative Parliamentary Committee on Trade and Industry and wrote extensively on industrial and social matters. He also spoke out against reform of anti-homosexual laws, once stating ''"The proper way to look at homosexuality is to regard it not as something separate but as something to which any of us can succumb if the circumstances of our lives or the weakness of our outlook make us susceptible."'' In the 1980s, he joined the

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* 1910 births 2002 deaths Royal Army Service Corps officers Royal Sussex Regiment officers British Army personnel of World War II Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1945–1950 UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs 1955–1959 UK MPs 1959–1964 UK MPs 1964–1966 Social Democratic Party (UK) politicians Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Cheadle {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1910s-stub