Sir Richard Cooper, 2nd Baronet
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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 manufacturing firm Cooper, McDougall & Robertson.
He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall in January 1910 general election, 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
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
- Catalogue of Cooper's papers at LSE Archives.
- Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Labour. 1920 - 1924 (Cambridge University Press, 1971).
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by Edward Marten Dunne |
Member of Parliament for Walsall Jan. 1910–1922 |
Succeeded by Patrick Collins |
Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
Preceded by Richard Cooper |
Baronet (of Shenstone Court) 1913–1946 |
Succeeded by William Cooper |