Sir Robert Alfred Cunliffe, 5th Baronet (17 January 1839 - 18 June 1905) was an English Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1872 and 1885.

Cunliffe was the son of Robert Ellis Cunliffe of the Bengal Civil Service. He was educated at Eton College

Eton College

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 and joined the Scots Fusilier Guards in 1857. In 1859, he succeeded his grandfather General Sir Robert Henry Cunliffe in the baronetcy

Cunliffe Baronets

The Cunliffe Baronetcy, of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 26 March 1759 for Ellis Cunliffe, a merchant and Member of Parliament for Liverpool. The fourth Baronet was a General in the Bengal Army...

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He retired from the regular army in 1862 and became Lieutenant Colonel commanding the Royal Denbigh Militia. He was a JP and DL for Denbighshire and High Sheriff of Denbighshire

High Sheriff of Denbighshire

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 in 1868.

In 1872 Cunliffe was elected Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Flint Boroughs

Flint Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and held the seat until 1874. At the 1880 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1880

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 Cunliffe was elected MP for Denbigh Boroughs

Denbigh Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency)

Denbigh District of Boroughs was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Denbigh in Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament to the British House of Commons.The constituency first returned an MP in 1542, to the English Parliament...

. He held the seat until 1885.

Cunliffe died at the age of 66.

Cunliffe married Eleanor Sophia Egerton Leigh, only daughter of Major Egerton Leigh of West Hall High Leigh and Jodrell Hall, Cheshire. Their son Foster was a cricketer and historian and died fighting in World War I

World War I

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