Sunday 17 March 2013
88 Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley
Constituency : Beaumaris 1831-2, Anglesey 1832-7, Flint Burghs 1841-7, Anglesey 1852-68
Sir Richard was a baronet, the 10th of his line. His father had also been an MP.
On becoming MP Sir Richard was almost immediately faced with a tragedy. A passenger ship the Rothsay Castle went down off the Anglesey coast and Richard was involved both in the rescue of survivors and as foreman of the inquest jury. He fiercely attacked the ship's owner for putting an unsound vessel out to sea.
Sir Richard was a classic Whig believing in safe progress and " the propriety of so reforming the institutions of the country as to ensure at once their safety and their adaptation to existing circumstances." He was Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire from 1851 to 1866. Despite his long service he never spoke in the House.
He died in 1875 aged 73.
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