# Henry Winterbotham

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{{Short description|English lawyer and politician}}
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'''Henry Selfe Page Winterbotham''' (2 March 1837 – 13 December 1873) was an English lawyer and  [Liberal Party](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK)) politician who sat in the [House of Commons](/source/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom) from 1867 to 1873.
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Winterbotham was the son of Lindsey Winterbotham, a banker, of Stroud and his wife Sarah Anne Selfe Page. He was educated at Amersham School, Buckinghamshire, and at [University College](/source/University_College_London), London, graduating with honours, BA in 1856, and LLB in 1859. He was a Hume Scholar in Jurisprudence in 1858, and a Hume Scholar in Political Economy and University Law Scholar in 1859. In 1860, he was elected Fellow of his college and called to the bar at [Lincoln's Inn](/source/Lincoln's_Inn). He was in practice at the chancery bar and as a conveyancer.<ref name=Debrett>[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1870londuoft#page/292/mode/2up Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1870]</ref>
 
Winterbotham was as an elected [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) (MP) for [Stroud](/source/Stroud_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) at a by-election on 20 August 1867 and held the seat until his death in 1873.<ref>{{Rayment-hc|s|5|date=March 2012}}</ref> In 1870 he was appointed [Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department](/source/Under-Secretary_of_State_for_the_Home_Department), an office he held until his death.<ref name=SHS>[http://www.stroudlocalhistorysociety.org.uk/stroud-cemetery-project/ Stroud History Society] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314205428/http://www.stroudlocalhistorysociety.org.uk/stroud-cemetery-project/ |date=14 March 2012 }}</ref>

Winterbotham died in Rome in December 1873, aged 36, allegedly from overwork.<ref name=SHS/> His brother [Arthur Brend Winterbotham](/source/Arthur_Brend_Winterbotham) was also a Member of Parliament.

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