886 Richard Fort ( 2 )

Constituency : Clitheroe  1880-85

Richard  recaptured  his  father's  old  seat  of  Clitheroe.

Richard  was  educated  at  Eton  and  Oxford. He  became  a  lieutenant  in  the  11th  Hussars.

Richard's  only  parliamentary  contribution  was  a  question  about  the  army  medical  department.

Richard  stood  down  in  1885.

He  died  in  1918  aged  61.  His  nephew  Richard  was  a  Conservative  MP  for  the  seat  in  the  1950s.