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- Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd [Hereditary] and also Baron Shepherd of Spalding [Life Peerage] PC, was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. Shepherd was born Blackburn, Lancashire 27 September 1918; succeeded 1946 as second Baron Shepherd; Deputy Opposition Chief Whip, House of Lords 1960-63, Deputy Speaker, House of Lords, then Opposition Chief Whip 1963, Government Chief Whip 1964-67; Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1967-70; Deputy Leader, House of Lords 1968-70, Opposition Deputy Leader 1970-74, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords 1974-76; member, Parliamentary Labour Party Executive 1964; PC 1965; created 1999 Baron Shepherd of Spalding; married 1941 Allison Redmond (died 1998; two sons); died 5 April 2001. Malcolm Newton Shepherd, politician and businessman: born Blackburn, Lancashire 27 September 1918; succeeded 1946 as second Baron Shepherd; Deputy Opposition Chief Whip, House of Lords 1960-63, Deputy Speaker, House of Lords, then Opposition Chief Whip 1963, Government Chief Whip 1964-67; Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1967-70; Deputy Leader, House of Lords 1968-70, Opposition Deputy Leader 1970-74, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords 1974-76; member, Parliamentary Labour Party Executive 1964; PC 1965; created 1999 Baron Shepherd of Spalding; married 1941 Allison Redmond (died 1998; two sons); died 5 April 2001. Malcolm Shepherd was one of a number of Labour hereditary peers who were extinguished in the Lords reform of 1999 only to be reborn as life peers. On the death of his father in 1954, he had succeeded as the second Baron Shepherd, but lost his seat during the first stage of reform in the House of Lords Bill. He then sat in the Lords as one of the hereditary peers who were immediately made life peers under the deal which had been agreed between Lord Cranborne and the Lord Chancellor in 1998. During his ministerial life he had moved in unconventional ways up or down the slippery pole of advancement, and he had the enviable record of having been served as both Government Chief Whip (1964-67) and as the Leader of the House of Lords (1974-76). Malcolm Newton Shepherd was born in 1918 in Blackburn where his father was agent to the MP, and later first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Snowden. George Shepherd became national agent of the Labour Party in 1929 and was made a peer by Clement Attlee in 1946. When Churchill sent for Attlee as the Leader of the Labour Party in 1940 with the request that Labour enter into a wartime coalition, it was with George Shepherd that he negotiated the terms. Malcolm was educated at Friends' School, Saffron Walden, in Essex, and served in the Royal Army Service Corps, in North Africa (El Alamein), Sicily and Italy, ending the war with the rank of captain. The detail of his service is shrouded in mystery for he became a member of what was called "Special Services". In 1941 he married Allison Redmond. When Shepherd first entered the Lords in 1954 there were about 25 to 30 Labour peers. There were not many more when he became Opposition Chief Whip in 1963. Harold Wilson made him Government Chief Whip in 1964 and he had already come to terms with the fact that it was the Tories who ran the Lords regardless of who was in government. Thus he made a successful job of working with them on many issues, and by trimming legislation he was able to deliver most if not all of the government business. He had to reign with tact and finesse, making up in skill and craftiness what he lacked in numerical strength. Shepherd was a pragmatist. He appreciated the limitations of being in a minority and that if he was to deliver the Bills sent to him from the Commons he had to do deals with other benches and to reach accommodation with the Conservatives, always ensuring that good relations with all were maintained. He had an avuncular manner, which enabled him to be well liked by all. He was a part of "the usual channels" of negotiations by the business managers longer than most, and proved the match for his opponent Chief Whips. The Lords always took kindly to his frequent interventions and he was often the oil which was poured on troubled waters. On his own volition he left the post of Chief Whip in 1967 to join the newly created Department of Economic Affairs led by George Brown, and then became a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth office until Labour's defeat in 1970. He then returned to a successful business career he had started earlier, but in 1974 when Harold Wilson returned to Number 10 he sent for him and made him Leader of the Lords. He had given commitments to return to his business interests within a time-scale, and so he left office in mid-1976 and was succeeded by Fred Peart. His non-parliamentary career as a businessman included the chairmanship of a number of companies including Mitchell Cotts, Fielding Brown and Finch, Chequepoint International and, from 1979 to 1984, the National Bus Company. He was the first chairman of the Civil Service Pay Research Unit Board, between 1978 and 1981. In later years he grew into an elder statesman both within the Labour ranks but also within the affairs of the House of Lords. He had established happy relationships with leading Tories over more than 30 years, people like Lord Carrington, Lord Whitelaw and Lord Denham. He was always conscious of the fact that when it came to numbers Labour would not win any battle, but if he worked with the Tories he could achieve much for the Labour Party. He made management of Lords business and affairs his speciality and he set a pattern for future Labour Chief Whips. Malcolm Shepherd was always proud of his roots, not only his father, but also his mother, Ada. Whilst her husband rose to the top in the Labour Party she spent much of her time in strengthening the role of women in society, using the trade unions to fulfil this end. She was a contemporary of Margaret Bondfield and Mary MacArthur, and in one dramatic fight for a living wage for women she was almost abandoned by trade union leaders, but stoutly supported by the Quaker families of Cadbury, Fry and Rowntree. Shepherd never fought a parliamentary election and succeeded his father before he could do so, but he recognised how fortunate he had been to do just that and was always content with what he had achieved. There can be few within Labour ranks, and especially within the House of Lords, who carried a more impressive record and who were accorded so much respect.
- Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2. baron Shepherd, brytyjski arystokrata i polityk, syn George'a Shepherda, 1. barona Shepherd. Członek Partii Pracy, minister w rządach Harolda Wilsona i Jamesa Callaghana. Wykształcenie odebrał we Friends' School w Saffron Walden w hrabstwie Essex. Podczas II wojny światowej walczył w Afryce Północnej i we Włoszech w szeregach Royal Army Service Crops. Dosłużył się stopnia kapitana. W 1941 r. poślubił Allison Redmond. Miał z nią dwóch synów. Po śmierci ojca w 1954 r. odziedziczył tytuł 2. barona Shepherd i zasiadł w Izbie Lordów. W 1960 r. został zastępcą głównego whipa Opozycji w Izbie Lordów, a w 1963 r. głównym whipem. Po wyborczym sukcesie laburzystów w 1964 r. Shepherd został głównym whipem rządowym oraz kapitanem Gentlemen-at-Arms. W 1967 r. otrzymał stanowisko ministra stanu w Foreign Office. W latach 1974-1976 był Lordem Tajnej Pieczęci i przewodniczącym Izby Lordów. W 1999 r. otrzymał dożywotni tytuł parowski barona Shepherd of Spalding, dzięki czemu mógł pozostać w Izbie Lordów po jej reformie dokonanej przez rząd Tonyego Blaira. Zmarł w 2001 r.
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