William Killigrew Wait

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]

William Killigrew Wait as Mayor of Bristol, oil on canvas, 1869.[1]

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
  1. William Killigrew Wait, Mayor of Bristol, Art UK. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  2. Index to Death Duty Registers Transcription. Retrieved 3 June 2016. (subscription required)
  3. Evans, Jill (September 2013). Gloucester Murder & Crime. ISBN 9780750951470.


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