536 William Stone

Constituency : Portsmouth  1865-74

William  replaced  Francis  Baring  at  Portsmouth.

William  was  educated  at  Harrow  and  Cambridge. He  was  a  merchant  with  the  East  India  Company  and  the  director  of  a  bank.

Unsurprisingly, most  of  William's  interventions  were  on  naval  matters  including  calling  for  extra  funding  for  unemployment  relief   during  a  depression  in  1869.

William  was  defeated  in  1974.

He  died  in  1896  aged  62.