William Stanley Shepherd (12 March 1910 – 11 October 2002) was a BritishConservative politician.
Shepherd was educated atCrewe and worked as a manufacturing chemist and company director and director of theManchesterChamber of Commerce. He served with the army in France, Belgium and the Netherlands duringWorld War II, reaching the rank of Lieutenant.
Shepherd was electedmember of parliament forBucklow at the1945 general election and forCheadle from 1950 until 1966, when he was defeated by theLiberal 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 ofanti-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."
During a parliamentary debate on the then newly-published Wolfenden Report on Homosexuality and Prostitution on Wednesday 26 November 1958, he the following in opposition of the decriminalisation of homosexuality:
"We ought to face the fact that homosexuality is unnatural and that in the majority of cases there are prospects of people of overcoming these tendencies.Incest is a much more natural act than homosexuality[1]
In the 1980s, he joined theSocial Democratic Party (SDP).
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| New constituency | Member of Parliament forBucklow 1945–1950 | constituency abolished |
| New constituency | Member of Parliament forCheadle 1950–1966 | Succeeded by |
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