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Biography of Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale 1771-1853

Paternal Family Tree: Bootle-Wilbraham

On 7th March 1771 Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale.

In 1795 Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale was elected MP Westbury.

In 1796 Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale was elected MP Newcastle under Lyme.

On 27th October 1801 [his son] Richard Bootle-Wilbraham was born to Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale.

In 1805 [his daughter] Emma Caroline Bootle-Wilbraham Countess Derby was born to Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale.

On 22nd December 1807 [his son] Edward Bootle-Wilbraham was born to Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale.

In 1812 Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale was elected MP Clitheroe.

In 1818 Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale was elected MP Dover.

On 31st May 1825 [his son-in-law] Edward Smith-Stanley 14th Earl of Derby (age 26) and [his daughter] Emma Caroline Bootle-Wilbraham Countess Derby (age 20) were married. She by marriage Countess Derby. He the son of Edward Smith-Stanley 13th Earl of Derby (age 50) and Charlotte Margaret Hornby Countess Derby.

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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

On 30th January 1828 Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale was created 1st Baron Skelmersdale in Lancashhire.

On 22nd May 1832 [his son] Richard Bootle-Wilbraham (age 30) and [his daughter-in-law] Jessy Brooke were married.

On 5th May 1844 [his son] Richard Bootle-Wilbraham (age 42) died of influenza.

On 3rd April 1853 Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale died. His grandson [his grandson] Edward (age 15) succeeded 2nd Baron Skelmersdale in Lancashhire.