Richard Bootle-Wilbraham (27 October 1801 – 5 May 1844) was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the

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from 1835 to 1844. Bootle-Wilbraham was the oldest son of

Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale (7 March 1771 – 3 April 1853), was a British landowner and politician. Life Bootle-Wilbraham was the son of Richard Wilbraham-Bootle and his wife Mary, daughter of Robert Bootle. He inherited Lat ...

, and his wife Mary Elizabeth Taylor. He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, and lived with his family at Blythe Hall, Lathom, Lancashire, part of the

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estate owned by his family. He was made a Deputy Lieutenant of

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in 1826, and was elected at the 1835 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for

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. He was re-elected in

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and returned without a contest in

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, and held the seat until his death from influenza in 1844, aged 42. He married Jessy Brooke (1812–1892), the daughter of Sir Richard Brooke, 6th Baronet Brooke of Norton. They had one son, the Conservative politician

Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom (12 December 1837 – 19 November 1898), known as The Lord Skelmersdale between 1853 and 1880, was a British Conservative politician. He was a member of every Conservative administration between 1866 ...

, and three daughters.

Sources

*G. E. C. (G. E. Cokayne) ed. by George H. White. ''The Complete Peerage''. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1953) Vol. XII, Part 1, p. 1.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bootle-Wilbraham, Richard 1801 births People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford 1844 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 UK MPs 1841–1847 Deputy Lieutenants of Lancashire Eldest sons of British hereditary barons Heirs apparent who never acceded