Sir Richard Cooper, 2nd Baronet

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Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper, 2nd Baronet (11 August 18745 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.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Edward Marten Dunne
Member of Parliament for Walsall
Jan. 19101922
Succeeded by
Patrick Collins
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Richard Cooper
Baronet
(of Shenstone Court)
1913–1946
Succeeded by
William Cooper