Background
He was born on 5 March 1807 in Earl"s Ditton, Shropshire, the son of Beriah Botfield of Norton Hall (died 1813) and Charlotte Withering.
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Beriah Botfield
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He was educated at Harrow School and then Christ Church College, Oxford University, graduating Bachelor in 1828.
Career
He was also a Conservative Party politician. He was also a noted bibliographer, geologist and botanist. He inherited the family"s extensive coal mining and ironmaking business, which was based in Shropshire.
Perhaps not so surprisingly, Beriah Botfield entered into political affairs
In 1831 he became High Sheriff of Northamptonshire. He did manage to regain the position when he was re-elected in 1857, and continued to serve until his death in 1863.
In 1858, he had erected a stone cross near the Wales–England border on Shadwell Hill, to commemorate a pedlar named William Cantlin who was robbed and murdered there in 1691. Botfield was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in January 1839.
He was president of the British Archaeological Association.
Beriah Botfield died on 7 August 1863, at his home at Grosvenor Square, London, at the age of fifty-six. In his will he left a considerable bequest to the Institute of Civil Engineers. On 21 October 1858, Beriah married Isabella Leighton in Alberbury, Shropshire.
She was the daughter of Sir Baldwin Leighton, the Eighth Baronet, who was also a Conservative party politician.
They had no children.
Membership
Royal Society; 13th United Kingdom Parliament. 14th United Kingdom Parliament]
In 1840, Beriah was elected as a Member of Parliament for Ludlow in a by-election and held the seat until a defeat in the 1847 general election.
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Political Party
Conservative Party