Michael Biddulph, 1st Baron Biddulph

Michael Biddulph, 1st Baron Biddulph (17 February 1834 – 6 April 1923) was a British banker and Liberal, later Liberal Unionist, Member of Parliament (MP).

"South Herefordshire". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1891.

Biddulph was the eldest son of Robert Biddulph and his wife Elizabeth (née Palmer), and was educated at Harrow. He was a partner in the London banking firm of Cocks, Biddulph and Co. In 1865 he was elected to the House of Commons for Herefordshire, a seat he held until 1885, and then represented Ross between 1886 and 1900. At first a Liberal, he disagreed with William Ewart Gladstone on the issue of Irish Home Rule and sat as a Liberal Unionist after 1886. Biddulph was also a Justice of the Peace for Herefordshire and Gloucestershire and served as Deputy Lieutenant of Herefordshire. In 1903 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Biddulph, of Ledbury in the County of Hereford.

Lord Biddulph married, firstly, Adelaide Georgiana, daughter of General Jonathan Peel, in 1864. They had two sons and three daughters. After her death in 1872 he married, secondly, Lady Elizabeth Philippa, daughter of Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke, in 1877. They had no children. Lord Biddulph died in April 1923, aged 89, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son from his first marriage, John. Lady Biddulph died in 1916, aged 81.

Coat of arms of Michael Biddulph, 1st Baron Biddulph
	Crest A wolf salient Argent charged on the shoulder with a trefoil slipped Gules. Escutcheon Vert an eagle displayed Argent armed and langued Gules a canton of the second. Supporters On either side a wolf Argent semée of trefoils slipped Gules. Motto Sublimiora Petamus (Let Us Aim At Loftier Things) [1]

References

Debrett's Peerage. 1921.

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
www.thepeerage.com

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Michael Biddulph

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by James King King Lord Montagu William Graham Humphrey Francis St John-Mildmay	Member of Parliament for Herefordshire 1865–1880 With: James King King 1865–1868 Sir John Russell Bailey 1865–1885 Sir Herbert George Denman Croft 1868–1874 Daniel Peploe Peploe 1874–1880 Thomas Duckham 1880–1885	constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Ross 1885–1900	Succeeded by Percy Archer Clive
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baron Biddulph 1903–1923	Succeeded by John Michael Gordon

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[1] Debrett's Peerage. 1921.