817 William Fuller-Maitland

Constituency : Breconshire  1875-95

William  became  the  first  Liberal  to  represent  Breconshire.

William  was  the  son  of  an  art-collecting  landowner  in  Essex. He  was  educated  at  Harrow  and  Oxford  for  whom  he  played  cricket  as  a  bowler. He  became  an  art  collector  himself.

Despite  his  20  year  stint  as  an  MP  William  did  not  speak  in  the  Commons.

He  died  in  1932  aged  88.