Sir William Whytehead Boulton, 1st Baronet DL (10 January 1873 – 9 January 1949) [1] was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician.
Boulton was the son of William Whytehead Boulton and his wife Mary Hudleston Gibson, daughter of John Gibson. [2] He was privately educated. [3]
Boulton served as lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards and became a major in the 7th Volunteer Battalion, Essex Regiment. [3] He entered the House of Commons in 1931, sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Central until 1945. [4] Boulton was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in 1940, a post he held for two years. [5] He subsequently was a Government Whip as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household until 1944. [5] On 30 June, he was created a baronet, of Braxted Park in the County of Essex. [6] Boulton represented Essex as a Deputy Lieutenant. [3]
On 23 April 1903, he married Rosalind Mary Milburn, daughter of Sir John Milburn, 1st Baronet. [2] They had four sons. [2] Boulton died in 1949, aged 75, and was succeeded in the baronetcy successively by his eldest son Edward and then by his third son William. [1]
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