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Edward William Brydges Willyams (5 November 1834 – 10 October 1916) was a Liberal MP, successively for three Cornish constituencies.[1] In 1892, he was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall.[2]
Willyams was born 6 November 1834, the son of Humphry Willyams,[3] a banker, land-owner and Liberal elector of Truro[4] and Ellen Frances Brydges Neynoe, his wife. She was the daughter of Colonel William Brydges Neynoe of Castle Neynoe, County Sligo.[5]
His older brother, James Willyams died aged 38 in 1861.[5]
His aunt by marriage Sarah Brydges Willyams, was an heiress, who married his father's elder brother James and had no children. However, when she died in 1863, she gave three-quarters of her fortune to Benjamin Disraeli, a great friend of hers and she was interred next to him in the Disraeli vault at Hughenden, Buckinghamshire.[1][6]
Willyams was educated at Merton College, Oxford.[1]
He was married twice, first to Jane, youngest daughter of Sir Trevor Wheler, Bt. on 26 June 1856[7] and then on 5 June 1882 to Emily, a daughter of Sir Joseph Moses Levy, the proprietor of The Daily Telegraph, which then supported the Liberal Party.[1] Emily Brydges Willyams died 5 February 1902.
He died on Tuesday, 10 October 1916, at his seat, Carnanton House, St Columb Major.
He stood for election at St Austell in 1887, as a Liberal Unionist but was defeated by the Gladstonian candidate,[9] and at the Truro by-election in 1878 he lost to the Conservative candidate Arthur Tremayne.
彼はコーンウォールの伝統的なスポーツであるハーリングの熱心な支持者だった。[ 1 ] 1884年から1910年までのタイムズ紙の競馬レポートによると、この期間に彼は数頭の競走馬を所有していた。
彼は1871/72年の離婚訴訟で共同被告人となったが、ウェルズ選出の国会議員ジョリフ大尉の妻、レディ・ジョリフと不倫関係にあった。彼は1874年の総選挙には立候補しなかった。[ 4 ]： 183-189 [ 10 ]
彼の相続人アーサー・ヒュー・ヴィヴィアン・ウィリアムズの妻オリーブ・ウィリアムズは、彼が偽造したと主張する約束手形を使って彼から4,000ポンドを得ようとした。彼女は3年間投獄され、その後精神異常になったと宣告された。[ 1 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ]