William Whitworth (politician)

William Whitworth (23 August 1813 – 28 December 1886)^[1] was a British cotton manufacturer and politician. He was a Liberal Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and represented the constituency of Newry, Ireland from 1874 to 1880.

Whitworth was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, to Nicholas Whitworth, an iron worker maker, and Sarah Barratt, and was baptised in a Methodist church.^[2] He was a prominent local businessman, being a partner with his brother in Benjamin Whitworth and Brothers, in the cotton merchants who by 1876 employed 1,000 people around Drogheda, Ireland.^[1] He was sheriff of Drogheda in 1869 and mayor in 1876.^[1]

He married Ruth Newton on 11 February 1847 at St Michael, Ashton-under-Lyne. They had a son, Nicholas.^[2]^[1]

Whitworth died at his home in Drogheda, after suffering a stroke, on 28 December 1886.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Death of Mr William Whitworth". The Huddersfield Daily Chronicle. 30 December 1886. p. 4. Retrieved 24 September 2014 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
^ ^a ^b England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)

External links[edit]

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Whitworth

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Preceded by Viscount Newry	Member of Parliament for Newry 1874 – 1880	Succeeded by Henry Thomson

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[obit-1] "Death of Mr William Whitworth". The Huddersfield Daily Chronicle. 30 December 1886. p. 4. Retrieved 24 September 2014 – via The British Newspaper Archive.

[ReferenceA-2] England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970

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