James Cropper (politician)

James Cropper (22 February 1823 – 16 October 1900) was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885.

He founded the paper mill company which eventually became James Cropper plc in 1845.

[3] He held the seat until the 1885 general election, when the parliamentary borough of Kendal was abolished, and the name transferred to a new division of the county of Westmorland.

Cropper married Fanny Alison Wakefield in 1845, and they were the parents of ten children.

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