Background
Rylands was born at Warrington, the son of John Rylands and his wife Martha Glazebrook, daughter of the Review James Glazebrook, vicar of Belton.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Rylands was born at Warrington, the son of John Rylands and his wife Martha Glazebrook, daughter of the Review James Glazebrook, vicar of Belton.
He was educated at Boteler"s Grammar School, Warrington.
He was a wire manufacturer and active in local government. As early as 1843 he was corresponding with Richard Cobden on political matters. He was Mayor of Warrington from 1853 to 1854.
He had directorships of the Manchester and Liverpool Banking Company, of the Bridgewater Navigation Company, of Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Company, Limited, and of Rylands Brothers, Limited, iron masters and wire manufacturers.
He was a Justice of the Peace for Cheshire and Lancashire. He lost his Warrington seat at the 1874 general election, when he also stood unsuccessfully in the South-Eastern Division of Lancashire.
When the Liberals split over the First Home Rule Bill, Rylands joined the breakaway Liberal Unionists, and was returned to the House of Commons at the 1886 general election as a Liberal Unionist. He held the seat until his death on 8 February 1887 at the age of 67.
Rylands lived at Massey Hall, Thelwall which he left to the local authority for educational purposes.
Rylands married twice.
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At the 1868 general election Rylands was elected Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Warrington. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Contagious Diseases in 1872.