Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale

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Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale (born 2 April 1945) is a British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords.

Lord Skelmersdale succeeded to the peerage in 1973 on the death of Lionel Bootle-Wilbraham, 6th Baron Skelsmerdale. He was made a House of Lords whip in Margaret Thatcher's government in 1981, holding that position until 1986. He then moved to the Department of Environment as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and then to the Department of Health and Social Security in 1987 before that department was split in 1988.

Lord Skelmersdale continued at the Department of Social Security until 1989 when he was assigned to the Northern Ireland Office, serving until the end of Thatcher's premiership in November 1990. He was not reappointed by John Major.

With the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, Lord Skelmersdale along with almost all other hereditary peers lost his automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. He was however elected as one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords pending completion of House of Lords reform.

Lord Skelmersdale is, as of 2006, a Conservative Shadow Minister for the Department of Work and Pensions as a member of David Cameron's front bench team.

Political offices
Preceded by The Lord Trefgarne	Lord-in-Waiting 1981–1986	Succeeded by The Lord Hesketh
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Lionel Bootle-Wilbraham	Baron Skelmersdale 1973 – present	Incumbent