Sir (Richard) Walter Essex (13 January 1857 – 15 September 1941) was a

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businessman and Liberal Party politician. The eldest son of John Essex, he established a

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printing business. He entered local politics in the

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area of south London. At the 1900 general election he was selected by the

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to contest the seat of Lambeth, Kennington, but failed to be elected. At the next general election in 1906 he was elected as

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for

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. He held the seat until January 1910 when he was defeated by his

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opponent, Benjamin Bathurst. He returned to the

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at the election of December 1910, when he was elected to represent Stafford. He was knighted in 1913 and made an honorary freeman of Stafford. Following a redistribution of seats, Essex stood at the new seat of Stoke-on-Trent, Burslem at the 1918 general election but was not elected. Essex was twice married: to Marie Chinchen of Swanage,

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in 1881. Following her death in 1883 he married Lizzie Benson of

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in 1885, with whom he had four children. He died at his home at Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire in September 1941.

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* 1857 births 1941 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 English Methodists People from Bourton-on-the-Water Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Stafford {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub