Richard Cooper
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Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper , 2nd Baronet (11 August 1874 – 5 March 1946) was a British politician.
He was educated at Clifton College and married in 1900 to Alice Priestland. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1913. He was Chairman of the chemical manufacturering firm Cooper, McDougall & Robertson.
He was elected MP for Walsall in 1910, a seat he would hold until 1922. He founded the National Party with Sir Henry Page Croft in 1917 but stood at the 1918 election as an Independent Conservative. He was prominent, along with Croft, in the campaign against the Prime Minister David Lloyd George in July 1922 for selling honours.
[edit] References
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
- British Library of Political and Economic Science
- Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Labour. 1920 - 1924 (Cambridge University Press, 1971).
