William Carlile

The Right Honourable Sir William Walter Carlile Bt OBE DL JP
Carlile in 1895
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 (1862-06-15)15 June 1862
Died	3 January 1950(1950-01-03) (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
Website	website

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]

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, 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 km^2), 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.

External links

• Sir William Walter Carlile at Milton Keynes Heritage Association
• Sir William Walter Carlile at the Carlile Institute
• Sir William Walter Carlile at the National Library of Scotland
• Sir William Walter Carlile at Art UK
• Sir William Walter Carlile at the National Portrait Gallery
• Sir William Walter Carlile at York University Library
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir William Walter Carlile

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Herbert Leon	Member of Parliament for Buckingham 1895 – 1906	Succeeded by Frederick Verney
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet of Gayhurst, Buckinghamshire 1928–1950	Extinct