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Welcome to this website that will eventually contain much of the research and some extracts from a book describing the life and ancestry of Edward Bootle Wilbraham, 3rd Earl of Lathom, that I have been preparing and writing for some six years.

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The Introduction Page has been amended to introduce the website rather than the book. The Preface Page now contains what was the Introduction. An Acknowledgements Page is being completed to thank all those who have contributed to this work - please return regularly to discover new research, resources and chapters from the book.

Project research has produced over 2,000 photograhic images of documents, maps, drawings, ancestral charts, photographs, artefacts, buildings and places. The images below are representative of both old and new images that were collected during the research. Feel free to explore the site . . .

Some pages are yet to be completed . . . pages available for viewing include The Plays where there are pdf copies of The Complete Plays of the 3rd Earl of Lathom with an introduction, notes, synopses and letters to Lathom's publisher Martin Secker; and the prefaces to the two published books of his plays.

	Entrance Hall at Blythe Hall The former Dower house and later, country residence, of the 3rd Earl of Lathom	3rd Earl of Lathom (Ned Lathom) in the uniform of the Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry	Charles Cocks - Cook at Lathom House and at the London residences of the 3rd Earl of Lathom	23, Queen's Road, St John's Wood The last residence of the 3rd Earl of Lathom

Special thanks go to all of those who assisted in this project including all the known existing relatives of the Bootle-Wilbraham and Baker-Wilbraham families, local historian Pam Nanson without whom I would not have got started; John Hayton,a gardener and florist with a passionate interest in esate gardens and Lathom Park who kept me going at times when I felt I would never finish the research; and the officers and members of The Lathom Park Trust whose help and support opened doors to the research and enabled so many people to share their knowledge with me. Particular thanks to the members and descendants of the Sparrow, Webster, Glover and Roper families and to those who wish to remain anonymous - you know who you are and how grateful I am to you! If there is anybody who has information that they wish to share on the lives and times of the Earls of Lathom then please get in touch. email

It is still my intention to publish the book - but the present economic climate has made that difficult for the moment!