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3 unusual facts about Edward Bootle-Wilbraham


Baron Skelmersdale

The title was created in 1828 for the former Member of Parliament for Westbury, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Clitheroe and Dover, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham.

Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale

He was succeeded in the barony by his grandson Edward, his eldest son the Hon.

Lathom

It passed through his niece to Richard Wilbraham and their son, Lord Skelmersdale.


Alexandra Lydon

Lydon graduated from Minnechaug Regional High School in Wilbraham, Massachusetts.

Aubrey de Vere I

Castle Hedingham, Beauchamp Walter, Great Bentley, Great Canfield, Earls Colne, White Colne, and Dovercourt, Essex; Aldham, Belstead, Lavenham, and Waldingfield, Suffolk; Castle Camps, Hildersham, Silverley, and Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire.

Baron Skelmersdale

His grandson, the second Baron (the son of the Hon. Richard Bootle-Wilbraham), was a Conservative politician and served in the Tory administrations of Disraeli and Lord Salisbury.

Charles Wilbraham Watson Ford

Brigadier Charles Wilbraham Watson Ford (1896-1972) was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.

Christine McCafferty

She attended Whalley Range Grammar School for Girls (now Whalley Range High School) on Wilbraham Road in Whalley Range, Manchester, then the Footscray High School in Melbourne, Australia.

Cuddington, Eddisbury

Gary Barlow of Take That fame once resided on the outskirts of Cuddington at Delamere Manor which was originally the home of the Wilbraham family.

Hampden Bank

As of 2011, Hampden Bank has ten office locations in Springfield, Agawam, Longmeadow, West Springfield, Wilbraham, at Tower Square in Metro Center Springfield, and in Indian Orchard.

Leone Caetani

His English mother, Ada Bootle Wilbraham came from Rode Hall, Cheshire.

Lionel Bootle-Wilbraham, 6th Baron Skelmersdale

Postwar, Lionel-Wilbraham saw service in Turkey during the Chanak Crisis of 1922, and then went to India to serve as ADC to the Governor of Madras (1924–27).

He died on 21 July 1973 and was succeeded by his son Roger as 7th Baron Skelmersdale.

London Calling!

The basis of London Calling! began at the Swiss resort of Davos in Christmas 1922, when Coward presented a musical outline of a new project involving himself and Lawrence, to benefactor, Edward William Bootle Wilbraham, 3rd Earl of Lathom, who was also a friend of André Charlot.

Rode Hall Silver Band

The band have played in the Congleton area ever since and are currently based in a property belonging to Lady Wilbraham of Rode Hall.

Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale

Lord Skelmersdale succeeded to the peerage in 1973 on the death of his father Lionel Bootle-Wilbraham, 6th Baron Skelmersdale.

Samuel Leech

He eventually accumulated enough money to go into business for himself, and became a merchant living in Wilbraham, Massachusetts with a wife and three children.

Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 3rd Baronet

Edmonstone, the eldest son of Sir Charles Edmonstone, 2nd Baronet, by his first wife Emma, fifth daughter of Richard Wilbraham Bootle of Rode Hall, Cheshire, and sister of Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale, was born at 32 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London, on 12 March 1795, and entered Eton in 1808.

Sixteen Acres

Principal boundaries are Watershops Pond and the North Branch of the Mill River to the north; the town of East Longmeadow to the south; Schneelock Brook to the west; and the town of Wilbraham to the east.

Valerie Barsom

She represented the 13th Hampden District, encompassing portions of Springfield, Wilbraham and East Longmeadow.

Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart

Wilbraham carried out a program of improvements at Ham House, including the creation of the Yellow Satin Bedroom, and was also a patron of Reynolds and Gainsborough.

Wilbraham, Massachusetts

In the 10th century (975 A.D.) it was still known as Wilburgeham; however in the Domesday Book it is known as Wiborgham.

One statement within the Wilbraham Town History Book of 1963 states that a trustee of the Wilbraham & Monson Academy was attending Oxford University and found the following in a history book: That the two villages of Little Wilbraham and Great Wilbraham came into existence because Alfred the Great, an English King who upon hunting wild boar in a very good spot about 60 miles northeast of London, designated that spot as Wild Boar Haven.

Wright's Almshouses, Nantwich

The Wright's Almshouses were built in 1638 by Edmund Wright, later Sir Edmund Wright, and were the town's second almshouses (after those on Welsh Row founded in 1613 by Sir Roger Wilbraham).

WTXX-LP

Owned by R and S Broadcasting, it broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 34 from a transmitter southeast of Wilbraham.


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