UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 30 June 1800, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire

Died: 20 July 1873

1st Baron Westbury - 27 June 1861

Knighted - 1853

Member of Privy Council - 1861

son of Dr Richard Bethel

Wadham College, Oxford (- 1818)

Middle Temple (1823 -)

31 July 1847	Shaftesbury	Conservative Party	176	45.24
11 April 1851	Aylesbury	Whig	544	51.22
7 July 1852	Aylesbury	Whig	525	53.41
December 1852 Resignation of Richard Bethell on appointment as Solicitor-General.
6 January 1853	Aylesbury	Whig	Unopposed
1857 Resignation of Sir Richard Bethell on appointment as Attorney-General.
9 February 1857	Aylesbury	Whig	Unopposed
28 March 1857	Aylesbury	Whig	501	67.43
29 April 1859	Wolverhampton	Liberal Party	Unopposed
1859 Resignation of Sir Richard Bethell on appointment as Attorney-General.
27 June 1859	Wolverhampton	Liberal Party	Unopposed
26 June 1861 Resignation of Sir Richard Bethell on appointment as Lord Chancellor and elevation to the Peerage - Baron Westbury.