Sir Ernest Whittome Shepperson, 1st Baronet (4 October 1874 – 22 August 1949) was a Conservative Party

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 politician in the United Kingdom

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. He was Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Leominster

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 from 1922 to 1945.

He was made a Baronet on 20 June 1945, of Upwood

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 in the County of Huntingdon

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. The title became extinct on his death.

He was born in the village of Benwick

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and a newspaper cutting can be found on the Benwick Website - www.lilyholtroad.co.uk under the Flashbacks page.