{{Short description|British politician}} {{No footnotes|date=December 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2017}} {{Use British English|date=February 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | office = Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside | term_start = 23 February 1950 | term_end = 9 February 1968 | image = Richard Winterbottom.PNG | caption = Winterbottom in 1949 | party = Labour | successor = Edward Griffiths | predecessor = Fred Marshall | branch = Royal Navy | battles = World War One | birth_place = Oldham, Lancashire | birth_date = 22 July 1899 | death_date = 9 February 1968 | profession = Trade unionist and politician | allegiance = United Kingdom }}

'''Richard Emanuel Winterbottom''' (22 July 1899 – 9 February 1968) was a British Labour Party politician.

Born in Oldham, Lancashire, Winterbottom served in the Royal Navy during World War I. He became an area organiser for a predecessor of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers in 1931, then the national organiser in 1944. In 1950, he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside, serving for his first year as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ness Edwards.

Winterbottom remained in Parliament until his death in 1968.

== References == *M. Stenton and S. Lees, ''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume IV 1945–1979'' *{{Rayment-hc|date=March 2012}}

== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-richard-winterbottom | Richard Winterbottom }}

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