Richard Arkwright DL (22 January 1835 – 14 November 1918)[1] was an English barrister and Conservative Party politician.
[2] He was called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1859 and in 1862 married Lady Mary Caroline Byng, a daughter of the Earl of Strafford.
Arkwright was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Leominster at an unopposed by-election in February 1866,[3] and stated that his position was not to oppose every change, but that he was against any 'great organic changes being made in matters connected with Church or State'.
[1] In 1886, Arkwright published Driven Home: A Tale of Destiny under the pseudonym Evelyn Owen.
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