Constituency : Stalybridge 1880-85, Huddersfield 1886-93
William unseated the Tory MP at Stalybridge.
William was the son of a local ironmaster. He was privately educated then went to Oxford. He became a barrister.
William made frequent parliamentary interventions on a wide range of subjects.
In 1885 the Tories reclaimed the seat. William got back in at Huddersfield the following year.
In 1889 William agreed to act as Treasurer for the journal Haiasdan , the mouthpiece of the Armenian community in the UK.
William was re-elected in 1892 despite being unable to fully campaign due to ill health. Later that year he sailed for Bombay hoping to improve his health but he died at Allahabad of malignant smallpox on New Year's Day 1893.
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