OBITUARY: The Right Rev Lord Sheppard of Liverpool ; England Cricket Captain Who Became Bishop of Liverpool

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DAVID SHEPPARD, the England cricket captain in 1954, was ordained in 1955 to the evangelical church of St Mary's in Islington, north London. He then spent 18 years in the East End followed by 22 years devoted to Liverpool. He experienced remarkable "conversions": from a quiet, rather shy schoolboy to being a handsome sporting icon, from being a conventional believer to being a born-again evangelical, then to become a radical activist over derelict urban areas and finally to enter a deep friendship with the Roman Catholic Archbishop Derek Worlock of Liverpool, with whom he wrote three books and took great risks in city riots.

Worlock and Sheppard liked to recount how in …