James Cropper

Who was James Cropper?

James Cropper was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885.

Cropper was the son of James Cropper of Dingle Bank Liverpool, and his wife Ann Wakefield, daughter of James Wakefield of Kendal. He was in business as a paper maker. He was a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant for Westmorland and was High Sheriff of Westmorland in 1875.

Cropper was elected Member of Parliament for Kendal at a by-election in December 1880. He held the seat until the 1885 general election, when the parliamentary borough of Kendal was abolished, and the name transferred to a new division of the county of Westmorland. In the enlarged constituency, Cropper was defeated by the Earl of Bective, a Conservative who had previously been one of the two MPs for the undivided Westmorland constituency.

Cropper died at the age of 77.