Constituency : Newcastle-under-lyme 1865-86
William replaced William Jackson as the Liberal representative for Newcastle-under-lyme.
William was a Mancunian conservative Methodist educated at Oxford. He was also a wealthy landowner in Staffordshire.
William's maiden speech was in support of the 1866 Reform Bill. He supported the disestablishment of the Irish church and the right of Nonconformist burial services in parish churchyards. He was also active on the Wesleyan Temperance Committee.
William was opposed to Home Rule and complained to Gladstone about his haste saying it had not been raised at the last election.
Shortly after leaving Parliament William left for New Zealand where he farmed and was briefly MP for Te Aroha in 1890 before being unseated on petition.
In 1913 William published a pamphlet attacking the revisionist views of the Methodist preacher George Jackson . William made an error in attacking a statement which was actually a direct quote from Wesley himself and had to revise and reissue it.
He died back in England in 1915 aged 83.
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