Sir William Arthur Mount, 1st Baronet

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, 3 August 1866 – 8 December 1930) was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for the Newbury constituency. He is the great-grandfather of Conservative politician

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, who was

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from 2010 to 2016.

Early life

The eldest son of

William George Mount William George Mount DL (18 July 1824 – 14 January 1906) was a British landowner, Conservative politician, and the first Member of Parliament for the Newbury constituency. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.‘MO ...

of Wasing Place,

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and wife Marianne Emily Clutterbuck, he was educated at

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and

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where he achieved honours in

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and

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Career

Law and politics

He was

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by the

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in 1893. Between 1896 and 1903 he served as assistant private secretary to two Chancellors of Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks Beach (later Viscount St. Aldwyn) and (from October 1902)

Charles Thomson Ritchie Charles Thomson Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee, (19 November 1838 – 9 January 1906) was a Scottish businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 until 1905 when he was raised to the peerage. He s ...

(later Lord Ritchie of

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). After his father stepped down as member for the South, or Newbury division of Berkshire in 1900 he was elected and served for six years before being defeated at the

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by his Liberal opponent. In the

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he stood again and succeeded in regaining his seat where he remained until resigning in 1922.

Berkshire appointments

He was a deputy lieutenant and

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for

and was elected chairman of the

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in 1926.

Baronetcy

He was created a

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in the

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Marriage and family

Mount married Hilda Lucy Adelaide Low on 9 November 1899 in

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, London,

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. Hilda was born 23 May 1875 to William Malcolm Low and wife (m. 30 July 1872), Lady Ida Matilda Alice Feilding. She died 3 April 1950. Mount and his wife were parents to

Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Malcolm Mount, 2nd Baronet, TD (28 December 1904 – 22 June 1993), was a British Army officer, High Sheriff of Berkshire and maternal grandfather to David Cameron, former UK Prime Minister and leader of the Co ...

, Robert Francis Mount and George Richard Mount.

Death

He died while crossing a

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while riding with the South Berkshire

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s from his residence at Wasing Place on 8 December 1930.''

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'', "Obituaries", 9 December 1930

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mount, William 1866 births 1930 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of New College, Oxford Members of Berkshire County Council Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Deputy lieutenants of Berkshire Newbury, Berkshire People from Wasing UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922

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Church Estates Commissioners English barristers