IBA from 1989 to 1993. Sheppard retired in 1997, and in the 1998 New Year Honours was elevated to a life peerage, taking the title Baron Sheppard of Liverpool, of West Kirby in the County of Merseyside. He sat in the House of Lords on the Labour benches. Awards and tributes He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1960 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Islington Boys' Club. In 2001 Sheppard was named President of Sussex County Cricket Club. Writing Beginning in the mid-1950s, Sheppard wrote a weekly column for Woman's Own, 520 words a week, "trying to make one point that had something to say about the everyday God in an accessible way". His column continued for 17 years. He wrote several books: Built As a City in 1974 about urban mission, Bias to the Poor in 1983, and two autobiographies, Parson's Pitch in 1964 and Steps Along Hope Street in 2002 (named after the street in Liverpool which links the Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals). Personal life In 1957 Sheppard married Grace Isaac, a daughter of a clergyman, whom he had met at Cambridge. Their only child, Jenny (now Sinclair), was born in 1962. In December 2003, Sheppard announced that he had been suffering from colorectal cancer for the previous two years. He died on 5 March 2005, the day before what would have been his 76th birthday. He was survived by his wife and daughter. After a funeral near his retirement home at West Kirby on the Wirral, his ashes were buried in Liverpool Cathedral, with a memorial service at the cathedral in May 2005. Lady Sheppard died of cancer on 10 November 2010, aged 75. Legacy On Whit Sunday, 11 May 2008, during the Christian Walk of Witness, a memorial statue, the Sheppard-Worlock Statue in the form of two bronze doors, was unveiled to honour both Sheppard and Archbishop Derek Worlock. The memorial was designed by notable sculptor Stephen Broadbent and funded by public donations. The memorial is situated halfway down Hope Street, in sight of the Anglican and Catholic cathedrals in Liverpool. The official biography of Bishop Sheppard by Andrew Bradstock of the University of Winchester, entitled Batting for the Poor, was published by SPCK on 21 November 2019. Bibliography by David Sheppard Parson's Pitch (1964) - autobiography. Published by Hodder & Stoughton Built As a City (1974) Published