David Ricardo (the younger)

David Ricardo (1803 – 17 May 1864) was a British Liberal Member of Parliament.

He was the son of David Ricardo, the MP and economist.

He was educated at Charterhouse School (1812–1815) and Trinity College, Cambridge.

[1] and elected MP for Stroud in 1832[2] but "took the Chiltern Hundreds" in 1833.

He married Catherine, the daughter of William Thomas St Quintin, of Scampston Hall, Yorkshire, and had two sons and a daughter.