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.

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

Notes

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

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Parliament of Great Britain Preceded bySamuel Estwick ISamuel Estwick II Member of Parliament for Westbury 1795–1796 With: Samuel Estwick II Succeeded bySir Henry St John-Mildmay, BtGeorge Ellis Preceded byWilliam EgertonSir Francis Ford, Bt Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme 1796–1801 With: William Egerton Succeeded byParliament of the United Kingdom Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded byParliament of Great Britain Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme 1801–1812 With: William Egerton 1801–1802Sir Robert Lawley 1802–1806James Macdonald 1806–1812 Succeeded byEarl GowerSir John Fenton Boughey, Bt Preceded byRobert Curzon Member of Parliament for Clitheroe 1812–1818 With: Robert CurzonViscount Castlereagh Succeeded byRobert CurzonWilliam Cust Preceded bySir John Jackson, BtCharles Jenkinson Member of Parliament for Dover 1820–1828 With: Sir John Jackson, Bt 1818–1820Joseph Butterworth 1820–1826Charles Poulett Thomson 1826–1828 Succeeded byCharles Poulett ThomsonWilliam Henry Trant Peerage of the United Kingdom New creation Baron Skelmersdale 1828–1853 Succeeded byEdward Bootle-Wilbraham
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