675 Richard Wingfield-Baker

Constituency : Essex  South  1857-9, 1868-74

 Richard  reclaimed  his  former  seat  from  the  Tories. Both  Liberal  candidates  were  unopposed.

Richard  was  the  son  of  a  former  MP  for  Bodmin  and  related  through  his  mother  to  Earl  Digby. He  was  educated  at  Rugby  and  Oxford.He  became  a  barrister.

He  died  in  1880  following  a  fall  while  hunting .He  was  77. His  brother  Frederick  claimed  that  he  saw  an  apparition  of  Richard  before  his  bed  on  the  night  of  his  death.