Richard Bootle-Wilbraham

Who was Richard Bootle-Wilbraham?

Richard Bootle-Wilbraham was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1835 1844.

Richard was the oldest son of Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale and his wife Mary Elizabeth Taylor. Richard was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford. He lived with his family at Blythe Hall, Lathom, Lancashire, part of the Lathom estate owned by his family.

He was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire in 1826, and was elected at the 1835 general election as the Member of Parliament for South Lancashire. He was re-elected in 1837 and returned without a contest in 1841, and held the seat until his death from influenza in 1844, aged 42.

He had married Jessy Brooke, the daughter of Sir Richard Brooke, 6th Baronet Brooke of Norton. They had one son, the Conservative politician Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom, and three daughters.