Sir Richard Gilpin, 1st Baronet

Sir Richard Thomas Gilpin, 1st Baronet (12 January 1801 – 8 April 1882) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1851 to 1880.

He was educated at Rugby School and at Christ's College, Cambridge[1] and after a brief spell as a Captain in the Bedfordshire Militia in 1820 he joined the regular army.

The officers of the Bedfordshire Militia placed a stained glass window in St Paul's Church, Bedford, in his memory.

[8] His entailed estates were inherited by his niece Amy Mary Louisa Meux-Smith, and her husband, the racehorse trainer Peter Valentine Purcell, who both adopted the surname Gilpin.

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