William Killigrew Wait
William Killigrew Wait as Mayor of Bristol, oil on canvas, 1869.[1]
William Killigrew Wait (21 December 1826 - 13 December 1902[2]) was a Bristol merchant and the Conservative Party member of Parliament for Gloucester elected in the 1873 Gloucester by-election. His opponent was Thomas Robinson of the Liberal Party who was subsequently elected in 1880. The 1873 by-election was bedeviled by accusations of corruption but an enquiry by the Electoral Commission upheld Wait's victory.[3]
His daughter Frances Katharine Wait married Charles Chadwyck-Healey on 17 May 1884.
He was converted to the cause of women's suffrage by the forced resignation of Eliza Walker Dunbar from the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.
References
- ↑ William Killigrew Wait, Mayor of Bristol, Art UK. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ↑ Index to Death Duty Registers Transcription. Retrieved 3 June 2016. (subscription required)
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=9-U6AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT21
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