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Sir Richard Wilbraham (12 April 1811 – 30 April 1900) was a

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officer who became colonel of the

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Early life

He was a son of Randle Bootle-Wilbraham (1773–1861) of

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and, his second wife, Sibylla Egerton. Among his siblings was Charlotte Wilbraham (wife of Francis Cradock Twemlow).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. His maternal grandparents were Philip Egerton, and Mary Eyles (a daughter of Sir Francis Haskins Eyles-Stiles), and among his maternal family were uncles

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and

Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 9th Baronet Rev. Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, 9th Baronet (6 July 1767 – 12 December 1829) was the Rector of Tarpoeley and Malpas and was the 9th Baronet Grey Egerton. He was born in 1767 as the son of Philip Egerton, and Mary Eyles, daughter of Sir Francis H ...

. His paternal grandparents were Richard Wilbraham-Bootle, MP for

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, and the former Mary Bootle (daughter and heiress of Robert Bootle of

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). His uncle was

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 ...

Career

In the mid-1830s, Captain Wilbraham was attached to the

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army to instruct local riflemen. The account of his travels in the lands between the

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and the

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, including

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and the

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, was published in London in 1839. Wilbraham then served in the Syrian War. Promoted to major in the

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, Wilbraham served as Adjutant General of the 2nd Division during the

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. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in February 1855 and to

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in August 1855. He also served as colonel of the

taking up the post in 1881.

Personal life

On 24 November 1846, Wilbraham was married to his cousin, Elizabeth Frances Egerton (1821–1849), a daughter of Sibella ( Boswell) Egerton and William Egerton of Gresford Lodge,

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. Before her death, they were the parents of one surviving daughter: * Katherine Frances Wilbraham (–1945), who married Sir George Barrington Baker Wilbraham, 5th Baronet, a son of Sir George Baker, 3rd Baronet and Mary Isabella Sutton. Wilbraham lived at

and died on 30 April 1900.

Descendants

Through his daughter Katherine, he was a grandfather of Sibylla Frances Baker Wilbraham (wife of The Ven. Percy Barnabas Emmet,

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Sir Philip Wilbraham Baker Wilbraham, 6th Baronet Sir Philip Wilbraham Baker Wilbraham, 6th Baronet, (17 September 1875 – 11 October 1957) was a British ecclesiastical lawyer and administrator. Biography Wilbraham was born at Rode Hall, Cheshire, the son of Sir George Barrington Baker Wilbr ...

(1875–1957), an ecclesiastical lawyer and administrator.

References

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