William Killigrew Wait

William Killigrew Wait (26 December 1826[2] – 13 December 1902[3]) was a Bristol merchant and the Conservative Party member of Parliament for Gloucester elected in the 1873 Gloucester by-election. His opponent was Thomas Robinson of the Liberal Party who was subsequently elected in 1880. The 1873 by-election was marred by accusations of corruption but an enquiry by the Electoral Commission upheld Wait's victory.[4]

William Killigrew Wait as Mayor of Bristol, oil on canvas, 1869.[1]

Wait was converted to the cause of women's suffrage by the forced resignation of Eliza Walker Dunbar from the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.[5] His daughter Frances Katharine Wait married Charles Chadwyck-Healey on 17 May 1884.

References
  1. "William Killigrew Wait, Mayor of Bristol (1869)". Art UK. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  2. Mair, Robert Henry (1876). Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench. Dean & Son. p. 245.
  3. Index to Death Duty Registers Transcription. Retrieved 3 June 2016. (subscription required)
  4. Evans, Jill (September 2013). Gloucester Murder & Crime. ISBN 9780750951470.
  5. "William Killigrew Wait - 1826-1902 (Mayor 1869)". Bristol Mayors & Sheriffs. Mayors & Sheriffs of Bristol. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2020.


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