Edward William Brydges Willyams (5 November 1834 – 10 October 1916) was a

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MP, successively for three Cornish constituencies.Obituary in ''The Times'', Thursday, 12 October 1916 In 1892, he was appointed

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Life

Willyams was born 6 November 1834, the son of Humphry Willyams (1792–1822),''Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain 1838'', page 38: Willyams of Carnanton, on Google Books.
/ref> a banker, land-owner and Liberal elector of

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Edwin Jaggard ''Cornwall politics in the age of reform'' and Ellen Frances Brydges Neynoe, his wife. She was the daughter of Colonel William Brydges Neynoe of Castle Neynoe,

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His older brother, James Willyams died aged 38 in 1861. His aunt by marriage Sarah Brydges Willyams, was an heiress, who married his father's elder brother James (1772–1820) and had no children. However, when she died in 1863, she gave three-quarters of her fortune to

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, a great friend of hers and she was interred next to him in the Disraeli vault at Hughenden, Buckinghamshire. Willyams was educated at

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. He was married twice, first to Jane, youngest daughter of Sir Trevor Wheler, Bt. on 26 June 1856 and then on 5 June 1882 to Emily, a daughter of Sir

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, the proprietor of ''

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'', which then supported the Liberal Party. Emily Brydges Willyams died 5 February 1902. He died on Tuesday, 10 October 1916, at his seat,

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Parliamentary service

*MP for

from 1857 to 1859. *MP for East Cornwall, 1868–1874. *MP for

, 1880–1885. He stood for election at

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in 1887, as a

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but was defeated by the

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candidate, and at the Truro by-election in 1878 he lost to the Conservative candidate

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Interests

He was a keen supporter of the old Cornish sport of

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. Racing reports in ''The Times'' from 1884 to 1910 show his ownership of several race-horses, during this period.

Difficulties

He was the co-respondent in a divorce in 1871/72, having carried on an affair with Lady Jolliffe, the wife of Captain Jolliffe, MP for

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. He did not stand at the General Election in 1874. Olive Willyams, the wife of his heir, Arthur Hugh Vivien Willyams, tried to obtain £4,000 from him, using promissory notes that he claimed were forged by her. She was committed to prison for three years and "was afterwards declared to have become insane.''The Times'', Saturday, 1 October 1910; pg. 3; Issue 39392; col A: "Charge of Forgery".

Notes and references

Sources

* Obituary of Edward Brydges Willyams in ''The Times'', Thursday, 12 Oct 1916; pg. 11; Issue 41296; column E. *

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''Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform 1790–1855'',

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/Boydell Press, (1999), , Chapter 6–8.

External links

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