Richard Wilbraham-Bootle (20 September 1725 – 13 March 1796) was a British landowner and politician who sat in the

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for 29 years from 1761 to 1790.

Early life

Lathom House from Morris's Country Seats 1880 edited

He was born Richard Wilbraham on 20 September 1725, the eldest son of Dorothy ( Kenrick) Wilbraham and Randle Wilbraham of

Rode Hall Rode Hall, a Georgian country house, is the seat of the Wilbraham family, members of the landed gentry in the parish of Odd Rode, Cheshire, England. The estate, with the original timber-framed manor house, was purchased by the Wilbrahams fr ...

, Cheshire. He matriculated at

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on 8 July 1742 and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1742 and was called to the bar in 1747.

Career

Wilbraham Bootle was returned as

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for

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without a contest in the 1761 general election and was returned unopposed again in

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and

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. In 1780 the

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described him as “one of the most independent Members in the House”. He was a member of the St. Alban's Tavern group which in February 1784 tried to bring Pitt and Fox together. In the 1784 general election, he was returned with a comfortable majority the first time he had to contest his seat at Chester. He retired in 1790. Only a few speeches by him are recorded and none were of any consequence. In 1758, he inherited Lathom House on the death of his wife's father and in 1770 inherited Rode Hall on the death of his own father.

Personal life

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On 31 May 1755, he married Mary Bootle, daughter and heiress of Robert Bootle of

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, Lancashire. Upon his marriage, he took the additional name of Bootle. Together, they were the parents of at least six sons and eight daughters, including: * Anne Dorothea Wilbraham-Bootle (d. 1825), who married

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. * Francisca Alicia Wilbraham-Bootle (d. 1810), who married

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of Grove Hall in 1783; their daughter Mary Letitia Eyre married

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. * Mary Wilbraham-Bootle (d. 1784), who married

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in 1780. * Emma Wilbraham-Bootle (d. 1797), who married

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, of Duntreath, in 1794. * Sibylla Georgiana Wilbraham-Bootle (d. 1799), who married William Ffarington in 1791. * Elizabeth Wilbraham-Bootle (d. 1841), who married the Rev. W. Barnes, Rector at Brixton Doverill, in 1821. *

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 L ...

(1771–1853), who married Mary Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Rev. Edward Taylor, in 1796. * Randle Bootle-Wilbraham (1773–1861), who married Letitia Rudd, daughter of Rev. Edward Rudd, in 1798. After her death in 1805, he married Sibylla Egerton, daughter of Philip Egerton, in 1808.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14'' (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes,

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, U.K.:

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, 2000), volume I, page 119. Wilbraham Bootle died on 13 March 1796. His eldest son

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inherited

and was created Baron Skelmersdale. Rode Hall passed to his younger son, Randle Wilbraham, father of General Sir

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References

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