William Killigrew Wait
William Killigrew Wait (26 December 1826[2] – 13 December 1902[3]) 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 marred by accusations of corruption but an enquiry by the Electoral Commission upheld Wait's victory.[4]
Wait was converted to the cause of women's suffrage by the forced resignation of Eliza Walker Dunbar from the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.[5] His daughter Frances Katharine Wait married Charles Chadwyck-Healey on 17 May 1884.
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- ^ "William Killigrew Wait, Mayor of Bristol (1869)". Art UK. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- ^ Mair, Robert Henry (1876). Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench. Dean & Son. p. 245.
- ^ Index to Death Duty Registers Transcription. Retrieved 3 June 2016. (subscription required)
- ^ Evans, Jill (September 2013). Gloucester Murder & Crime. ISBN 9780750951470.
- ^ "William Killigrew Wait - 1826-1902 (Mayor 1869)". Bristol Mayors & Sheriffs. Mayors & Sheriffs of Bristol. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
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- Members of Parliament for Gloucester
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- English merchants
- Mayors of Bristol
- 1826 births
- 1902 deaths
- 19th-century English businesspeople
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