1576 William Brocklehurst

Constituency : Macclesfield  1906-18

William  took  Macclesfield  from  the Tories.

William  was  the  son  of  the  former  Macclesfield  MP  of  the  same  name. He  was  educated  at  Cheltenham  College  and Oxford. He  was  a  senior  partner  in  the  family's  silk  manufacturing  business  and  a  member  of  Cheshire  County  Council.

William  never  spoke  in  the  Commons.

In  the  First  World  War  William  loaned  a  property  to  the  Red  Cross  for  use  as  a  hospital  for  wounded  soldiers  and  sailors.

William  stood  down  in  1918.

He  died  in  1929  aged  78.