Richard Winfrey

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Sir Richard Winfrey (1858-1944) was Liberal MP for South West Norfolk and Gainsborough. He was a newspaper publisher and campaigner for agricultural rights.

As Mayor of Peterborough he was perhaps the last person to read the Riot Act in August 1914 after anti-German disturbances.^[1]

In 1887, Sir Richard Winfrey purchased the Spalding Guardian, a local newspaper that provided the basis for the Winfrey family's newspaper interests. In 1947, the family's newspaper titles were consolidated to form the East Midland Allied Press, now the emap media group. ^[2]

He was born at Long Sutton in Lincolnshire, 5 August 1858. He married Annie Lucy Pattinson in 1897 and was knighted in 1914. He died 18 April 1944 in Castor House, Castor, Peterborough.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Thomas Leigh Hare	Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk 1906–1923	Succeeded by Alan McLean
Preceded by John Elsdale Molson	Member of Parliament for Gainsborough 1923–1924	Succeeded by Harry Crookshank
Political offices
Preceded by The Duke of Marlborough The Viscount Goschen	Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries with The Lord Clinton 1918–1919	Succeeded by Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen