Baron Shepherd, of Spalding in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1946 for George Shepherd

George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd

George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd PC , was a British Labour politician.-Early life:Shepherd was the son of George Robert Shepherd, a tailor of Spalding, Lincolnshire...

, who had previously served as National Agent of the Labour Party

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. His only son, the second Baron, was also a prominent Labour

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 politician and notably served as Leader of the House of Lords

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. After the House of Lords Act 1999

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 removed the automatic right of hereditary peer

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s to sit in the House of Lords

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 he was given a life peerage as Baron Shepherd of Spalding, of Spalding in the County of Lincoln, an honour given to all former Leaders of the House of Lords. On his death in 2001 the life barony became extinct, while he was succeeded in the hereditary barony by his eldest son, the third and present holder of the title.

Barons Shepherd (1946)

• George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd
  George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd
  George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd PC , was a British Labour politician.-Early life:Shepherd was the son of George Robert Shepherd, a tailor of Spalding, Lincolnshire...
  
   (1881–1954)
• Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd
  Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd
  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 the son of the Labour politician George...
  
  (1918–2001)
• Graeme George Shepherd, 3rd Baron Shepherd (b. 1949)