Richard Bootle-Wilbraham

Richard Bootle-Wilbraham (27 October 1801 – 5 May 1844)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.

[2] He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, and lived with his family at Blythe Hall, Lathom, Lancashire, part of the Lathom estate owned by his family.

He was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire in 1826,[3] and was elected at the 1835 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Lancashire.

[4][5] He was re-elected in 1837[6] and returned without a contest[5] in 1841,[7] and held the seat until his death from influenza in 1844, aged 42.

[2] They had one son, the Conservative politician Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom, and three daughters.