Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale

Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale (7 March 1771 – 3 April 1853), was a British landowner and politician.

Life

Bootle-Wilbraham was the son of Richard Wilbraham Bootle and his wife Mary, daughter of Robert Bootle. He inherited Lathom House on the death of his father in 1796 and changed his name by royal licence in 1814 to Bootle-Wilbraham .

He was elected to the House of Commons for Westbury in 1795, a seat he held until 1796, and then represented Newcastle under Lyme from 1796 to 1812, Clitheroe from 1812 to 1818 and Dover from 1818 to 1828. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Skelmersdale, of Skelmersdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

Lord Skelmersdale married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Reverend Edward Taylor, in 1796. She died in 1840. Skelmersdale survived her by thirteen years and died in April 1853, aged 82. He was succeeded in the barony by his grandson Edward, his eldest son the Hon. Richard Bootle-Wilbraham having predeceased him.

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

External links

• Portrait of Lord Skelmersdale
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edward Bootle-Wilbraham

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Samuel Estwick Samuel Estwick	Member of Parliament for Westbury 1795–1796 With: Samuel Estwick	Succeeded by Sir Henry Paulet St.John-Mildmay, Bt George Ellis
Preceded by William Egerton Sir Francis Ford, Bt	Member of Parliament for Newcastle under Lyme 1796–1801 With: William Egerton	Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Parliament of Great Britain	Member of Parliament for Newcastle under Lyme 1801–1812 With: William Egerton 1801–1802 Sir Robert Lawley 1802–1806 James Macdonald 1806–1812	Succeeded by Earl Gower Sir John Fenton Boughey, Bt
Preceded by Robert Curzon	Member of Parliament for Clitheroe 1812–1818 With: Robert Curzon Viscount Castlereagh	Succeeded by Robert Curzon William Cust
Preceded by Sir John Jackson, Bt Charles Jenkinson	Member of Parliament for Dover 1820–1828 With: Sir John Jackson, Bt 1818–1820 Joseph Butterworth 1820–1826 Charles Poulett Thomson 1826–1828	Succeeded by Charles Poulett Thomson William Henry Trant
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baron Skelmersdale 1828–1853	Succeeded by Edward Bootle-Wilbraham