Henry Selfe Page Winterbotham (2 March 1837 – 13 December 1873) was an English lawyer and

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politician who sat in the

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from 1867 to 1873. Cimitero acattolico Rome 121

Winterbotham was the son of Lindsey Winterbotham, a banker, of Stroud and his wife Sarah Anne Selfe Page. He was educated at Amersham School, Buckinghamshire, and at

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, London, graduating with honours, BA in 1856, and LLB in 1859. He was a Hume Scholar in Jurisprudence in 1858, and a Hume Scholar in Political Economy and University Law Scholar in 1859. In 1860, he was elected Fellow of his college and called to the bar at

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. He was in practice at the chancery bar and as a conveyancer.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1870
/ref> Winterbotham was as an elected Member of Parliament (MP) for

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. Sited below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills, at the meeting point of the ...

at a by-election on 20 August 1867 and held the seat until his death in 1873. In 1870 he was appointed

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, an office he held until his death.Stroud History Society
Winterbotham died in Rome in December 1873, aged 36, allegedly from overwork. His brother

Arthur Brend Winterbotham Arthur Brend Winterbotham (19 April 1838 – 8 September 1892) was an English cloth manufacturer and Liberal Party politician. Winterbotham was the son of Lindsey Winterbotham and Sarah Ann Page. His father was a banker of Stroud, Gloucestershi ...

was also a Member of Parliament.

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* 1837 births 1873 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1865–1868 Alumni of University College London Members of Lincoln's Inn Burials in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome Alumni of the UCL Faculty of Laws {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub