Ralph Anthony Thicknesse

{{short description|British Whig politician, died 1854}}

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|office = Member of Parliament
for Wigan

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|term_start = 28 July 1847

|term_end = 22 August 1854

|alongside = James Lindsay

|predecessor = James Lindsay
Charles Strickland Standish

|successor = James Lindsay
Joseph Acton

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Ralph Anthony Thicknesse (1800 – 22 August 1854){{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "W" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons4.htm |website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=22 July 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722142411/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons4.htm|archivedate=22 July 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=13 June 2017 }} was a British Whig politician.{{cite news |title=The General Election |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000206/18470731/004/0006 |accessdate=22 July 2018 |work=Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser |date=31 July 1847 |pages=2, 3, 6, 7 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news |title=The Late Elections |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000091/18470814/013/0007 |accessdate=22 July 2018 |work=Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser |date=14 August 1847 |pages=3, 7, 8 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}

Thicknesse was first elected Whig MP for Wigan at the 1847 general election and held the seat until his death in 1854.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book |pages=331–332}}