Arthur Brend Winterbotham (19 April 1838 – 8 September 1892) was an English cloth manufacturer and

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politician. Winterbotham was the son of Lindsey Winterbotham and Sarah Ann Page. His father was a banker of

Stroud Stroud is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District. The town's population was 13,500 in 2021. Below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills, at the meeting point of the Five ...

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. He was educated at Amersham School. After joining Thomas Hunt as partner in Cam Mill (previously known as Corrietts Mill) he moved to Cam, Gloucestershire, where he was a cloth manufacturer. He built a house at Norman Hill,

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, Gloucestershire. In 1885 Winterbotham was elected

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(MP) for

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. He held the seat until his death in 1892 aged 54. Winterbotham married Elizabeth Strachan in 1863 and had two sons

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and Herbert. His brother

Henry Selfe Page Winterbotham Henry Selfe Page Winterbotham (2 March 1837 – 13 December 1873) was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1867 to 1873. Winterbotham was the son of Lindsey Winterbotham, a banker, of Stroud and h ...

was also a Member of Parliament.

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* 1838 births 1892 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 British textile industry businesspeople People from Stroud Liberal Unionist Party MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Cirencester {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub