Arthur Walters Wills Explained

Arthur Walters Wills
Office1:Member of Parliament
for North Dorset
Term Start1:January 1905
Term End1:January 1910
Predecessor1:John Kenelm Digby Wingfield-Digby
Successor1:Randolf Littlehales Baker
Birth Date:1868
Death Date:17 November 1948
Birthname:Arthur Walters Wills
Nationality:British
Party:Liberal
Spouse:Margery Eyre-Walker

Arthur Walters Wills (1868-17 November 1948), was a British Liberal Party politician.

Background

He was a son of George Wills of Moretonhampstead, Devon. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He married in 1908, Margery Eyre-Walker of Byfleet, Surrey. They had two sons and two daughters.[1]

Legal career

He took honours in law in 1890. As a Barrister-at-law, he was called to Bar in 1894 and joined the Western Circuit.

Political career

He sat as Liberal MP for Dorset North from January 1905 to January 1910. He was elected at the first time of asking at the North Dorset by-election in January 1905 when he gained the seat from the Conservatives. He held the seat a year later at the 1906 General Election. He lost his seat back to the Conservatives at the January 1910 General Election. He failed to re-gain his seat at the general election 11 months later;He did not stand for parliament again.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Who Was Who
  2. British parliamentary election results 1885-1918