Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 2nd Earl Of Lathom
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Edward George Bootle-Wilbraham, 2nd Earl of Lathom JP
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(25 October 1864 – 15 March 1910), was an English Army officer and peer.


Early life

He was the eldest son of
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 Party (UK), Conservative politician. He was a member of every Conservative admi ...
and the former Lady Alice Villiers. Among his siblings were Villiers Richard Bootle-Wilbraham (who married Violet Inez de Romero), Lady Bertha Mabel Bootle-Wilbraham (wife of Maj. Arthur Frederick Dawkins), and Lady Florence Mary Bootle-Wilbraham (wife of the Rt. Rev. Lord William Cecil,
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, son of
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (; 3 February 183022 August 1903), known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for ...
). His paternal grandparents were the Hon.
Richard Bootle-Wilbraham Richard Bootle-Wilbraham (27 October 1801 – 5 May 1844) was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1844. Bootle-Wilbraham was the oldest son of Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale, a ...
, MP (eldest 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 L ...
of Lathom House) and the former Jessy Brooke (a daughter of Sir Richard Brooke, 6th Baronet of
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). His maternal grandparents were
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (12 January 180027 June 1870) was an English diplomat and statesman from the Villiers family. He served a succession of Whig and Liberal administrations. This included as Viceroy in f ...
and the former Lady Katharine Barham (widow of John Joseph Barham, and eldest daughter of
James Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam James Walter Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam (26 September 1775 – 17 November 1845), styled Lord Dunboyne from 1775 until 1808 and known as the 4th Viscount Grimston from 1808 to 1815, was a British peer and politician. Life and career He was ...
). He was educated at
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.


Career

He gained the rank of Commander in the
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, Liverpool Division. He was a Major in the
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from 1896 to 1897, and a Major and Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel in the
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. He held the office of Justice of the Peace for Lancashire. In 1889, he unsuccessfully contested the seat for
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previously held by his grandfather. Upon the death of his father on 19 November 1898, he succeeded as the 2nd Earl of Lathom, and the 3rd Baron Skelmersdale.


Personal life

On 15 August 1889, Lord Lathom married Lady Wilma Pleydell-Bouverie, the only surviving daughter of
William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor PC (19 June 1841 – 3 June 1900), styled Viscount Folkestone from 1869 to 1889, was a British Conservative politician. He served as Treasurer of the Household under Lord Salisbury between 1885 and ...
and Helen Matilda Chaplin (only surviving daughter of Rev. Henry Chaplin, Vicar of Ryhall and sister of
Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin (22 December 1840 – 29 May 1923) was a British landowner, racehorse owner and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 until 1916 when he was raised to the peerage. Backgrou ...
). Together, they were the parents of: * Lady Helen Alice Bootle-Wilbraham (1890–1929), who married Hugh Sartorius Whitaker, son of William Ingham Whitaker, in 1913. They divorced in 1922 and she married Maj.-Gen. Henry William Newcome, in 1925. * Lady Barbara Ann Bootle-Wilbraham (1893–1949), who married Lt. Francis Seymour, son of Hugh Francis Seymour, in 1914. * Edward William Bootle-Wilbraham, 3rd Earl of Lathom (1895–1930), who married Marie Xenia ( de Tunzelman) Morrisson, daughter of E. W. de Tunzelman and the former wife of Ronald William Morrison, in 1927. * Lady Rosemary Wilma Bootle-Wilbraham (1903–1968), who married Vincent Francis Cassidy in 1930. After his death she married Capt. T. H. Bird. Lord Lathom died on 15 March 1910. Lady Lathom remarried on 16 November 1912 to Lt.-Gen. Sir Henry Merrick Lawson.


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Edward George Bootle-Wilbraham, 2nd Earl of Lathom
at the
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