Constituency : Guildford 1906-10, Aberdeenshire East 1910-18, Aberdeen East and Kincardine 1918-22, Islington North 1923-9 ( Conservative )
William took Guildford which had been Tory since 1874.
William was educated at Merchiston Castle School and Edinburgh University. He was involved in a firm that made electrical appliances.
William's particular interest was encouraging emigration to the dominions.
William left Guildford for the safer pastures of Eastern Aberdeenshire in 1910 where he easily saw off Liberal Unionist challengers in the 1910 elections.
William was a supporter of Scottish home rule and presented a bill to that effect in 1913. It passed its first reading but the First World War intervened.
William was a fervent conscriptionist calling for all men between 18 and 65 to be available.
William was knighted in 1917.
As a Lloyd George supporter William received the coupon but was still challenged by a Unionist and squeaked in by just 87 votes.
In 1922 William was challenged by an Asquithian Liberal Frederick Martin who defeated him.
William reacted by joining the Conservatives and won a three-cornered contest at Islington in 1923.
William stood down in 1929.
He died in 1932 aged 69.
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