Sir William Walter Carlile | |
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Member of Parliament for Buckingham | |
In office 13 July 1895 – 12 January 1906 | |
Preceded by | Sir Herbert Samuel Leon |
Succeeded by | Frederick William Verney |
Personal details | |
Born | William Walter Carlile 15 June 1862 |
Died | 3 January 1950 | (aged 87)
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative Party |
Spouse(s) | Blanche Ann Cadogan (1861–1939) |
Parent(s) | James William Carlile, Esq. of Ponsbourne Park, Herts. |
Residence(s) | Gayhurst Park, Buckinghamshire |
Alma mater | Clare College, Cambridge |
Occupation | British Army officer and Conservative Party politician |
Profession | British Army officer, politician |
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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 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]
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]
In 1885, Carlile married Blanche Anne Cadogan, daughter of the Rev. Edward Cadogan of Wicken, Northamptonshire, and sister of the author E. E. Cowper. [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]