| William Cunliffe Lister | |
| Office: | Member of Parliament for Bradford |
| Term Start: | 1 July 1841 |
| Term End: | 12 August 1841 |
| Predecessor: | Ellis Cunliffe Lister William Busfield |
| Successor: | John Hardy William Busfield |
| Alongside: | John Hardy |
| Birth Date: | 13 December 1809 |
| Birth Place: | Addingham, Yorkshire, England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Party: | Whig |
William Cunliffe Lister (13 December 1809 – 12 August 1841)[1] was a British Whig politician, and barrister.[2] [3] [4]
Born in Addingham, Yorkshire, Lister was the son of Ellis Cunliffe Lister—who, between 1832 and 1841, was a Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford—and Mary née Kay.[5]
First educated at Charterhouse School, in 1825 he was then admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1831, before being called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1834.
He followed his father into politics, becoming a Whig MP for the same constituency when his father retired at the 1841 general election, but died, unmarried, just over a month later.[6] [4] [5]