Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale (2 April 1945 – 31 October 2018), was a British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords.

[1] From 1972, Lord Skelmersdale and his wife Christine owned and operated Broadleigh Gardens,[2] a horticultural centre at Barr House, Bishops Hull, Taunton, Somerset.

[1] He was made a House of Lords whip in Margaret Thatcher's government in 1981, holding that position until 1986.

[citation needed] Lord Skelmersdale continued at the Department of Social Security until 1989 when he was assigned to the Northern Ireland Office, serving until the end of Thatcher's premiership in November 1990.

Lord Skelmersdale was, as of 2006, a Conservative Shadow Minister for the Department for Work and Pensions as a member of David Cameron's front bench team, however, he did not become a minister in the coalition Cameron ministry starting in 2010.