Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 2nd Earl of Lathom

Edward George Bootle-Wilbraham, 2nd Earl of Lathom JP KStJ (25 October 1864 – 15 March 1910), was an English Army officer and peer.

Early life He was the eldest son of Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom and the former Lady Alice Villiers. Among his siblings were Villiers Richard Bootle-Wilbraham (who married Violet Inez de Romero), Lady Bertha Mabel Bootle-Wilbraham (wife of Maj. Arthur Frederick Dawkins), and Lady Florence Mary Bootle-Wilbraham (wife of the Rt. Rev. Lord William Cecil, Bishop of Exeter, son of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury). His maternal grandparents were George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon and the former Lady Katharine Barham (widow of John Joseph Barham, and eldest daughter of James Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam).

Lady Helen Alice Bootle-Wilbraham (1890–1929), who married Hugh Sartorius Whitaker, son of William Ingham Whitaker, in 1913. They divorced in 1922 and she married Maj.-Gen. Henry William Newcome, in 1925. Lady Barbara Ann Bootle-Wilbraham (1893–1949), who married Lt. Francis Seymour, son of Hugh Francis Seymour, in 1914.

Lord Lathom died on 15 March 1910. Lady Lathom remarried on 16 November 1912 to Lt.-Gen. Sir Henry Merrick Lawson.