Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale
Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale | |
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Portrait of Bootle-Wilbraham, published 1834 | |
| Member of Parliament for Westbury | |
| In office 1795–1796 Serving with Samuel Estwick II | |
| Preceded by | Samuel Estwick I Samuel Estwick II |
| Succeeded by | Sir Henry St John-Mildmay, Bt George Ellis |
| Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme | |
| In office 1796–1801 Serving with William Egerton | |
| Preceded by | William Egerton Sir Francis Ford, Bt |
| Succeeded by | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme | |
| In office 1801–1812 | |
| Preceded by | Parliament of Great Britain |
| Succeeded by | Earl Gower Sir John Fenton Boughey, Bt |
| Member of Parliament for Clitheroe | |
| In office 1812–1818 | |
| Preceded by | Robert Curzon |
| Succeeded by | Robert Curzon William Cust |
| Member of Parliament for Dover | |
| In office 1820–1828 Serving with Sir John Jackson, Bt (1818–20) Joseph Butterworth (1820–26) Charles Poulett Thomson (1826–28) | |
| Preceded by | Sir John Jackson, Bt Charles Jenkinson |
| Succeeded by | Charles Poulett Thomson William Henry Trant |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 March 1771 |
| Died | 3 April 1853 (aged 82) |
| Party | Tory |
| Spouse |
Mary Elizabeth Taylor
(m. 1796; died 1840) |
| Parents |
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| Relatives | Robert Bootle (maternal grandfather) Richard Bootle-Wilbraham (son) Emma Bootle-Wilbraham (daughter) Edward Bootle-Wilbraham (grandson) |
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 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 House of Commons for Westbury in 1795,[1] a seat he held until 1796, and then represented Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1796 to 1812, Clitheroe from 1812 to 1818 and Dover from 1818 to 1828. On 30 January 1828 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Skelmersdale, of Skelmersdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster.[2]
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 (1801–1844), Edward Bootle-Wilbraham (1807–1882), and Emma Caroline Smith-Stanley, Countess of Derby and the Hon. Mary Charlotte (1800-).
He was succeeded in the barony by his grandson Edward, his eldest son the Hon. Richard Bootle-Wilbraham having predeceased him.
Notes
- ^ historyofparliamentonline.org, Westbury 1790–1820.
- ^ "No. 18433". The London Gazette. 18 January 1828. p. 122.
References
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
- "WILBRAHAM BOOTLE (afterwards BOOTLE WILBRAHAM), Edward (1771–1853), of Lathom House, Lancs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 29 March 2016.