Brigadier Lionel Bootle-Wilbraham, 6th Baron Skelmersdale, DSO, MC (23 September 1896 – 21 July 1973) was a British Army officer and peer who served in both the First and Second World War.

[2] He then entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, as a wartime cadet in 1915 and passed out the same year,[3] being commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in August 1915.

[1][2] Early in the Second World War, Bootle-Wilbraham commanded the 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, in the Battle of France, which played an important part in holding the Dunkirk perimeter.

In April 1945, Bootle-Wilbraham formed a new 137th Brigade headquarters to administer reception camps, selection and training battalions for wounded and temporarily unfit troops returning from overseas.

[2] After retiring from the army, Bootle-Wilbraham joined the Associated British Oil Engine Company (later Brush Export Ltd) as a director and became its representative in the Caribbean and Latin America 1949–1959.