Sir William Walter Carlile, 1st Baronet, OBE, DL, JP (15 June 1862 – 3 January 1950) was a British

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politician from

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in Buckinghamshire who served from 1895 to 1906 as the

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(MP) for the Buckingham or (Northern) division of Buckinghamshire.

Biography

Carlile was the only son of James Walter Carlile of Ponsbourne Park in Hertfordshire and his wife Mary (née Whiteman) from Glengarr in

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. He was educated at Harrow and at

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, and later became a

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of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry (the former

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). He held several offices in the county: as a justice of the peace, a deputy lieutenant (having been appointed in 1897), and an

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. In early 1900 he received a commission as major of the 1st Battalion, Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteers. Carlile first stood for

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at the 1892 general election, when he was defeated in Buckingham by the sitting

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MP Herbert Samuel Leon. He won the seat at the next election, in 1895, on a swing of 4.5%, and was re-elected in

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. He stood down from the

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at the 1906 general election, when Buckingham was won by the Liberal Frederick William Verney.

Honours

Having been appointed an Officer of the

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(OBE) in 1918, Carlile was made a

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, of

in the County of Buckingham, in the 1928 Birthday Honours. The baronetcy became extinct on his death.

Personal

In 1885, Carlile married Blanche Anne Cadogan, daughter of the Rev. Edward Cadogan of Wicken, Northamptonshire. His residence was listed in 1901 as

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in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, a late-Elizabethan stone mansion house formerly owned by

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, one of the conspirators in the

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of 1605. Set in well-wooded park of , it has been described as "one of the most charming examples of Elizabethan architecture in the county".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carlile, Wiliam W 1862 births 1950 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge Deputy Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire Councillors in Buckinghamshire Members of Buckinghamshire County Council Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Officers of the Order of the British Empire People from Newport Pagnell Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers