The son of Sir Foster Cunliffe, third baronet (d. 1834); educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a Whig MP for Chester (1831-32).

REFERENCES TO Foster Cunliffe-Offley:

Sydney Smith to Lord Crewe [February 1816?] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)