Richard Fothergill (politician)

Richard Fothergill's coat of arms
James Sant, Mary Fothergill and her children Richard and Mary. Oil on canvas, exhibited at the Royal Academy 1864. Fothergill's second wife.

Richard Fothergill (8 November 1822 – 24 June 1903) was an English ironmaster, a coalmine-owner in Wales and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880.