Osman Ricardo (25 May 1795 – 2 January 1881)
was a
British
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and
Whig politician.
Ricardo was first elected Whig MP for
Worcester
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at the
1847 general election, and, becoming a Liberal in 1859, he held the seat until 1865, when he stood down.
William Cobbett
William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish "rotten boroughs", restrain foreign ...
in his 1830 book
Rural Rides
''Rural Rides'' is the book for which the English journalist, agriculturist and political reformer William Cobbett is best known.
At the time of writing in the early 1820s, Cobbett was a radical anti-Corn Law campaigner, newly returned to Englan ...
reports being frightened by a life-sized cross atop the porter's lodge at "Osmond Ricardo's" estate at "Broomsborough" (i.e
Bromsberrow
Bromsberrow (or Bromesberrow) is part of the Forest of Dean district. The village is close to the meeting point between Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Worcestershire. The nearest town is Ledbury, about four miles north in Herefordshire.
A ...
), Worcestershire, on Monday 24 September 1826.
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Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Worcester
UK MPs 1847–1852
UK MPs 1852–1857
UK MPs 1857–1859
UK MPs 1859–1865
1795 births
1881 deaths
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