Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale

Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale (2 April 1945 – 31 October 2018), was a British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords.


The Lord Skelmersdale
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In office
26 July 1989  28 November 1990
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded byThe Lord Lyell
Succeeded byJeremy Hanley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security
In office
25 July 1988  26 July 1989
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byThe Lord Henley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security
In office
13 June 1987  25 July 1988
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded byMichael Portillo
Succeeded byEdwina Currie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment
In office
10 September 1986  13 June 1987
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded byAngela Rumbold
Succeeded byChristopher Chope
Lord-in-waiting
Government Whip
In office
9 January 1981  10 September 1986
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded byThe Lord Trefgarne
Succeeded byThe Lord Hesketh
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
8 July 1974  31 October 2018
Hereditary peerage
Preceded byThe 6th Baron Skelmersdale
Succeeded byThe Lord Reay
Personal details
Born(1945-04-02)2 April 1945
Died31 October 2018(2018-10-31) (aged 73)
Political partyConservative
Alma materEton College

He was educated at Eton College.[1]

From 1972, Lord Skelmersdale and his wife Christine owned and operated Broadleigh Gardens,[2] a horticultural centre at Barr House, Bishops Hull, Taunton, Somerset.[3]

Lord Skelmersdale succeeded to the peerage in 1973 on the death of his father Lionel Bootle-Wilbraham, 6th Baron Skelmersdale.[1] 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.[1]

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 was, as of 2006, a Conservative Shadow Minister for the Department for Work and Pensions as a member of David Cameron's front bench team, however, he did not become a minister in the coalition Cameron ministry starting in 2010.[4]

He served as a Deputy Chairman of Committees from 1991[5] to 2003 (and Deputy Speaker from 1995), and again from 2010[6] to 2014.

Lord Skelmersdale was a bridge player and a member of the all-party parliamentary bridge group.

Lord Skelmersdale died on 31 October 2018 at the age of 73.[7]

References

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
1973–2018
Member of the House of Lords
(1974–2018)
Succeeded by
Andrew Bootle-Wilbraham
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