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 Robert Bootle Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS ( – 7 May 1758) was an English ship's captain in the service of the East India Company who was elected four times to serve as a director of the company. Early life He was born at Lathom House in La ...

. He inherited Lathom House on the death of his father in 1796 and changed his name by royal licence in 1814 to Bootle-Wilbraham. He was elected to the

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for Westbury in 1795, a seat he held until 1796, and then represented

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from 1796 to 1812,

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from 1812 to 1818 and

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from 1818 to 1828. On 30 January 1828 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Skelmersdale, of

Skelmersdale Skelmersdale is a town in the West Lancashire district of England. It sits on the River Tawd, west of Wigan, north-east of Liverpool and south-west of Preston, Lancashire, Preston. In 2006, it had a population of 38,813. The town is known l ...

in the

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. Lord Skelmersdale married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Reverend Edward Taylor, in 1796. She died in 1840. Skelmersdale survived her by thirteen years and died in April 1853, aged 82. They had a number of children, including:

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 ...

(1801–1844), Edward Bootle-Wilbraham (1807–1882), and

Emma Caroline Smith-Stanley, Countess of Derby Emma Caroline Smith-Stanley, Countess of Derby (née ''Bootle-Wilbraham'', 1805 – 26 April 1876) was the wife of Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times in the mid-19th cent ...

and the Hon. Mary Charlotte (1800-). He was succeeded in the barony by his grandson

Edward Edward is an English male name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortunate; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-S ...

, his eldest son the Hon.

having predeceased him.

Notes

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, * *

External links

Portrait of Lord Skelmersdale
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bootle-Wilbraham, Edward 1771 births Skelmersdale, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron People from Lathom Skelmersdale, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron

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