Roger Wilbraham (MP)

Roger Wilbraham FRS (1743 – January 1829) was a British Member of Parliament (MP), bibliophile, antiquary, local historian and a patron of science and the arts. He had an extensive library and he published work on the Cheshire dialect.

This article is about the MP and book collector. For the Solicitor-General of Ireland, see Roger Wilbraham.

Roger Wilbraham
Detail from Tribuna of the Uffizi (1772–1778) by Johann Zoffany, showing Wilbraham (probably on the left) among a group admiring the statue of the Venus de' Medici
Born30 December 1743
Nantwich
Died3 January 1829
London
NationalityBritish
EducationTrinity College, Cambridge
Political partyWhig
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