Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 2nd Earl of Lathom

He was the eldest son of Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom and the former Lady Alice Villiers. Among his siblings were Villiers Richard Bootle-Wilbraham (who married Violet Inez de Romero), Lady Bertha Mabel Bootle-Wilbraham (wife of Maj. Arthur Frederick Dawkins), and Lady Florence Mary Bootle-Wilbraham (wife of the Rt. Rev. Lord William Cecil, Bishop of Exeter, son of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury). His maternal grandparents were George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon and the former Lady Katharine Barham (widow of John Joseph Barham, and eldest daughter of James Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam). He was educated at Eton College. ==Career==

He gained the rank of Commander in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, Liverpool Division. He was a Major in the Royal Horse Guards from 1896 to 1897, and a Major and Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel in the Lancashire Hussars. He held the office of Justice of the Peace for Lancashire. In 1889, he unsuccessfully contested the seat for South Lancashire previously held by his grandfather. Upon the death of his father on 19 November 1898, he succeeded as the 2nd Earl of Lathom, and the 3rd Baron Skelmersdale. ==Personal life==

, 1904 On 15 August 1889, Lord Lathom married Lady Wilma Pleydell-Bouverie, the only surviving daughter of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor and Helen Matilda Chaplin (only surviving daughter of Rev. Henry Chaplin, Vicar of Ryhall and sister of Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin). Together, they were the parents of: • Lady Helen Alice Bootle-Wilbraham (1890–1929), who married Hugh Sartorius Whitaker, son of William Ingham Whitaker, in 1913. They divorced in 1922 and she married Maj.-Gen. Henry William Newcome, in 1925. • Lady Barbara Ann Bootle-Wilbraham (1893–1949), who married Lt. Francis Seymour, son of Hugh Francis Seymour, in 1914. Lord Lathom died on 15 March 1910. Lady Lathom remarried on 16 November 1912 to Lt.-Gen. Sir Henry Merrick Lawson. ==References==