Allen John George Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Didgemere, KCVO (25 December 1932 – 25 March 2015) was a British industrialist and Conservative member of the House of Lords.

[1] He then moved to Grand Metropolitan, 1975–96, being Chief Executive, 1986–93 and Chairman, 1987–96.

From 1996 to 2003, he was non-executive chairman of GB Railways Group Plc, a train company listed on the Alternative Investment Market which operated the Anglia Railways franchise, and which launched GB Railfreight and Hull Trains.

He received a knighthood in 1990 Birthday Honours,[2] having the accolade conferred by The Queen on 4 December 1990.

[3] He was created a life peer[1] as Baron Sheppard of Didgemere, of Roydon in the County of Essex on 6 September 1994,[4] and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 1998 New Year Honours.