Sir Henry Rich, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Rich, 1st Baronet (1803 – 5 November 1869) was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Knaresborough in 1837 and for Richmond between 1846 & 1861 when he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds to make room for Sir Roundell Palmer. He was Lord of the Treasury from July 1846 to March 1852.

Educated at Sandhurst and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. in 1825). He served in the British Army and was at the taking of Poonah and the Battle of Kirkee for which he was awarded a medal. For some time he was a Groom in Waiting to her Majesty Queen Victoria.

He was the illegitimate son of Admiral Sir Thomas Rich, 5th Baronet of Sonning (1733-1803), and Elizabeth Burt. On 7 September 1852 at the parish church of Acton, Cheshire, he married Julia, daughter of the late Rev. James Tomkinson of Dorfield Hall, Cheshire.

He was created a baronet in 1863.[1]

His remains were interred in the Rich family vault at St Andrew's Church, Sonning, Berkshire on 10 November 1869.

References
  1. "No. 22697". The London Gazette. 9 January 1863. p. 119.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Richards
and Andrew Lawson		 Member of Parliament for Knaresborough
1837–1841
With: Charles Langdale		 Succeeded by
Andrew Lawson
and William Ferrand
Preceded by
William Colborne and
John Charles Dundas		 Member of Parliament for Richmond
1846–1861
With: John Charles Dundas to 1847
Marmaduke Wyvill from 1847		 Succeeded by
Sir Roundell Palmer
Marmaduke Wyvill
Political offices
Preceded by
Henry Bingham Baring
William Cripps
Swynfen Carnegie
Ralph Neville		 Junior Lord of the Treasury
1846–1852		 Succeeded by
Marquess of Chandos
The Lord Henry Lennox
Thomas Bateson
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Sunning, Berkshire)
1863–1869		 Extinct

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