Sir William Purdie Treloar, 1st Baronet (13 January 1843 – 6 September 1923) was an English businessman who was Sheriff of London in 1889–1900 and

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in 1906–1907. He established an active "Cripples' Fund" as his mayoral appeal.

Career

Treloar was born in

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, and educated at

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. He was head of the firm of Treloar and Sons (haberdashery), and Director and Trustee of T. Cook and Son. He was selected an

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of the

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for the Ward of

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from 1892, a

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in 1899 and

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in 1906–1907.Sir William Purdie
ancestry.com On St Thomas's Day, 21 December 1881, he became a Common Councilman for the Ward of Farringdon Without. He served as a Common Councilman until he became its Alderman in 1892. He was the author of ''A Lord Mayor's Diary 1906-7'' (1920) and of the earlier works ''Ludgate Hill: Past and Present'' (1881, 2nd ed 1892), ''Prince of Palms'' (1884), ''With the Kaiser in the East, 1898'' (1915) and ''Wilkes and the City'' (1917).

Lord Mayor of London

Sir William Treloar established a "Cripples' Fund" as his mayoral appeal, for which he gained 10,000 pounds of donations for his Alton Hospital during his tenure as Lord Mayor of London 9 November 1906 to 1907. Sir William and Lady Treloar greeted their first patients at

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on 8 September 1908 and a new branch was opened at Sandy Point,

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, in September 1919, with 50 patients. As a result of this in 1908 he opened Treloar College and

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, near

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, which has become part of the ''Treloar Trust'' a charity supporting the UK's leading specialist centre providing education, independence training and opportunities for young people with physical disabilities. Treloar maintains its links with The City and

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: each Lord Mayor of the City of London automatically becomes a trustee of Treloar Trust and visits the college and school. During his period of office as Lord Mayor he made a ceremonial visit to

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, the county from which his ancestors came. He received the Freedom of

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and had the honour of leading the full dress

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at noon on 8 May 1907.

Honours

He was

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in his year as sheriff, at

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on 29 March 1900. On 8 May 1907 he was in Helston, Cornwall "the home of my fathers" and was given the Freedom of the Borough of Helston and then Freedom of the Borough of

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. On 8 July 1907, Treloar conducted the opening of Simmons Park in

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. After this date, a Swiss-style chalet – named Chalet Treloar – was built by the riverside in his honour. On 17 July 1907 he was created a baronet, of Grange Mount in the Parish of All Saints, Upper Norwood, in the Borough of Croydon. Sir William died at his home Grange Mount, in

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on 6 September 1923 aged 80 and was buried alongside his wife at Shirley, Surrey.

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External links

Treloar Trust official pagePortraits of Sir William P. Treloar in the National Portrait Gallery.
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Career

Lord Mayor of London

Honours

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