Robert Myddelton Biddulph (1805–1872)
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Colonel Robert Myddelton Biddulph (20 June 1805 – 21 March 1872) was a British landowner and Member of Parliament for the
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Early life

He was the elder son of Robert Myddelton Biddulph (1761–1814) of
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by his wife Charlotte Myddelton of
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, Denbighshire. He was educated at
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. He succeeded his father in 1814 and his mother in 1843, inheriting the Chirk estate. His younger brother was
Thomas Myddelton Biddulph Sir Thomas Myddelton Biddulph (29 July 1809 – 28 September 1878) was an officer in the British Army and courtier. Early life Thomas was born on 29 July 1809. He was the second son of Charlotte Myddelton and Robert Myddelton Biddulph (1761–18 ...
(1809–1878), an officer in the
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and courtier.


Career

He was Member of Parliament for Denbigh Boroughs from 1830 to 1832 and for
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from 1832 to 1835 and from 1852 to 1868. He was
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of the Royal Denbigh Rifles Militia from 1840, Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire from 1841, and an aide-de-camp to
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from 1869, holding all these offices until his death.


Personal life

On 31 May 1832, he married Frances Mostyn-Owen, daughter of William Mostyn-Owen of Woodhouse in
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, and granddaughter of
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( 1742–1795), a Member of Parliament for
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. They had three sons (one of whom predeceased him) and three daughters. His children included: * Mary Caroline Myddelton Biddulph (d. 1890) * Richard Myddelton Biddulph (1837–1913), who married Catherine Arabella Howard (d. 1899), granddaughter of
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(a younger brother of
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). At his death, his eldest son, Richard, succeeded to Chirk Castle, his wife inherited his London house at 35
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, and his brother
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received a life interest in the estate at Burghill. An 1869 portrait by Henry Richard Graves was presented to Biddulph's widow in 1873. It was acquired by the
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in 2004 and is in the Myddelton collection at Chirk.Colonel Robert Myddleton Biddulph MP (1805-1872)
National Trust Collections. Accessed 25 February 2012.


References

Notes Sources * Margaret Escott
MYDDELTON BIDDULPH, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx.
in ''The House of Commons 1820-1832'',
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, 2009.


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