Robert Laycock (MP)

Laycock was born in Winlaton, County Durham, to Joseph Laycock of Wiseton Hall and his first wife, Barbara Nicholson.{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain |date=1900 |publisher=Harrison & Sons |page=928 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mIRLct95aMEC&pg=PA928&dq=Robert+Laycock |access-date=26 November 2024 |language=en}} His father was a wealthy colliery owner. Laycock was educated in Durham and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Laycock was elected Liberal MP for North Lincolnshire in 1880, but died just over a year later. He had also previously contested North Nottinghamshire in February 1872 and Nottingham in 1874.{{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}}

In 1866, Laycock married Annie Allhusen, second daughter of Christian Allhusen. They had a son, Sir Joseph Laycock (1867–1952), and a daughter, Alice Barbara (1868–1952), who married Edward Alfred Mitchell-Innes, son of Gilbert Mitchell-Innes.{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Sir Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain |date=1921 |publisher=Burke Publishing Company |pages=20-21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2v8-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA20&dq=allhusen+of+stoke+court|access-date=26 November 2024 |language=en}}

Laycock died suddenly in August 1881 while visiting Eastbourne, Sussex. He arrived in Eastbourne and complained of stomach pain, and died the following morning. He died 12 days after his father.{{cite news |title=Sudden Death of the Member for North Lincoln |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000286/18810815/020/0003 |access-date=26 November 2024 |work=Shields Daily Gazette |date=15 August 1881 |page=3}}{{cite news |title=Death of Mr R. Laycock, M.P. |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000250/18810815/022/0003 |access-date=26 November 2024 |work=Sheffield Daily Telegraph |date=15 August 1881 |page=3}} His widow later remarried Lord D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, son of George Osborne, 8th Duke of Leeds.

{{reflist}}

• {{Hansard-contribs | mr-robert-laycock | Robert Laycock }}

{{s-start}}

{{s-par|uk}}

{{s-bef| before = Rowland Winn |before2 = John Dugdale Astley }}

{{s-ttl| title = Member of Parliament for North Lincolnshire

|with = Rowland Winn

| years =1880–1881}}

{{s-aft| after = Rowland Winn

|after2= James Lowther }}

{{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Laycock, Robert}}

Category:Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies

Category:UK MPs 1880–1885

Category:1833 births

Category:1881 deaths

{{Liberal-UK-MP-stub}}