Background
Richard Pilkington was born in Street Helens to the Chairman of the Pilkington glass works, Arthur Pilkington, and Marjorie Cope, daughter of the painter Arthur Stockdale Cope.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Richard Pilkington was born in Street Helens to the Chairman of the Pilkington glass works, Arthur Pilkington, and Marjorie Cope, daughter of the painter Arthur Stockdale Cope.
He was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford.
He worked and travelled in North America from 1928 until 1930 when he joined the Coldstream Guards, serving in Sudan and Egypt. Military and Political He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Oliver Stanley. On the outbreak of the Second World War he rejoined the Army and travelled to France with the British Expeditionary Force.
He was awarded the Military Cross after returning with one of the last groups from Dunkirk in 1940.
He left the Army again in 1942 and became a Civil Lord of the Admiralty, leading naval missions to India, Ceylon and Burma. He lost his seat to Christopher Shawcross in 1945 and lost again in 1950.
He died from the disease in 1976 at the age of 68.
37th United Kingdom Parliament. 40th United Kingdom Parliament. 41st United Kingdom Parliament.
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In 1935 he resigned his commission to enter politics and was elected as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Widnes in Lancashire.