Sir William Peter Rylands, 1st Baronet (23 October 1868 – 22 October 1948) was a British businessman. Rylands was head of Rylands Brothers and served as

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in 1935. He was created a baronet, of Thelwall in the County Palatine of Chester, in 1939. He died in October 1948, one day before his eightieth birthday. The title died with him.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rylands, Peter 1868 births 1948 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom English businesspeople