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Sir William (Alfred) Waterlow, 1st Baronet,
KBE
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Lord Mayor of London
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[‘WATERLOW, Sir William (Alfred)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 201]
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Waterlow was educated at Marlborough College
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. He rose to become Managing Director
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of Waterlow and Sons
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and was knighted Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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(KBE) in the 1919 New Year Honours
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. He became Alderman
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for Cornhill Ward and was elected a Sheriff of the City of London
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for 1928–29 and Lord Mayor of London for 1929–30. He was created a baronet, of Harrow Weald, on 28 October 1930.
He is best known for his involvement in the Portuguese Bank Note Crisis (1925) a fraud masterminded by Alves dos Reis
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1871 births
1931 deaths
People educated at Marlborough College
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Sheriffs of the City of London
20th-century lord mayors of London
20th-century English politicians
201
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William
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