William Carlile

Sir William Walter Carlile, 1st Baronet, OBE, DL, JP (15 June 1862 – 3 January 1950)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician from Gayhurst in Buckinghamshire who served from 1895 to 1906 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Buckingham or (Northern) division of Buckinghamshire.[2]

Carlile in 1895.

Biography

Carlile was the only son of James Walter Carlile of Ponsbourne Park in Hertfordshire and his wife Mary (née Whiteman) from Glengarr in Argyll.[3] He was educated at Harrow and at Clare College, Cambridge,[4] and later became a lieutenant of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry (the former Royal Buckinghamshire Militia (King's Own)).[3]

He held several offices in the county: as a justice of the peace,[3] a deputy lieutenant (having been appointed in 1897[5]), and an Alderman of Buckinghamshire County Council.[3] In early 1900 he received a commission as major of the 1st Battalion, Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteers.[6]

Carlile first stood for Parliament at the 1892 general election, when he was defeated in Buckingham by the sitting Liberal Party MP Herbert Samuel Leon.[7] He won the seat at the next election, in 1895,[8] on a swing of 4.5%,[7] and was re-elected in 1900.[9] He stood down from the House of Commons at the 1906 general election, when Buckingham was won by the Liberal Frederick William Verney.[10]

Honours

Having been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1918,[11] Carlile was made a baronet, of Gayhurst in the County of Buckingham, in the 1928 Birthday Honours.[12] The baronetcy became extinct on his death.[1]

Personal

In 1885, Carlile married Blanche Anne Cadogan, daughter of the Rev. Edward Cadogan of Wicken, Northamptonshire.[3]

His residence was listed in 1901 as Gayhurst House in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire,[3] a late-Elizabethan stone mansion house formerly owned by Everard Digby, one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.[13] Set in well-wooded park of 250 acres (1.0 km2), it has been described as "one of the most charming examples of Elizabethan architecture in the county".[13]

References
  1. Leigh Rayment's list of baronets – Baronetcies beginning with "C" (part 1)
  2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)
  3. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1901. London: Dean & Son. 1901.
  4. "Carlile, William Walter (CRLL881WW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. "No. 26850". The London Gazette. 7 May 1897. p. 2538.
  6. "The War – The Volunteers". The Times. No. 36062. London. 10 February 1900. p. 9.
  7. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 225. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
  8. "No. 26651". The London Gazette. 9 August 1895. p. 4479.
  9. "No. 27244". The London Gazette. 6 November 1900. p. 6768.
  10. "No. 27885". The London Gazette. 13 February 1906. p. 1038.
  11. "No. 30460". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 January 1918. p. 375.
  12. "No. 33400". The London Gazette. 3 June 1928. p. 4495.
  13. Page, William, ed. (1927). "Parishes : Gayhurst". A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4. pp. 343–347. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
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