Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale

Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale (7 March 1771 – 3 April 1853), was a British landowner and politician.

Portrait of Bootle-Wilbraham, published 1834

Life

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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.

He was succeeded in the barony by his grandson Edward, his eldest son the Hon. Richard Bootle-Wilbraham having predeceased him.

Notes

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  1. ^ historyofparliamentonline.org, Westbury 1790–1820.
  2. ^ "No. 18433". The London Gazette. 18 January 1828. p. 122.

References

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Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Westbury
1795–1796
With: Samuel Estwick II
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme
1796–1801
With: William Egerton
Succeeded by
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Parliament of Great Britain
Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme
1801–1812
With: William Egerton 1801–1802
Sir Robert Lawley 1802–1806
James Macdonald 1806–1812
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Clitheroe
1812–1818
With: Robert Curzon
Viscount Castlereagh
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Dover
1820–1828
With: Sir John Jackson, Bt 1818–1820
Joseph Butterworth 1820–1826
Charles Poulett Thomson 1826–1828
Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Skelmersdale
1828–1853
Succeeded by