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