William Melmoth Walters (25 January 1835 – 20 November 1925) was President of the Incorporated Law Society (1891-1892) and member of an old Somerset family.[1]
William Melmoth Walters | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1835 |
| Died | 1925 |
Family background
editWalters was the eldest son of solicitor[2] John Eldad Walters of Lincoln's Inn and Eleanor, daughter and co-heiress of Alexander Radclyffe Sidebottom.[3] He was a nephew-in-law of Sir Christopher Rawlinson.
Walters was a descendant of William Melmoth,[4] the poet William King and a relation of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon.
On 17 July 1860, he married Marian Eleanor, eldest child of Alfred Leggatt, of Lowndes Square, London. He was the father of the famous amateur footballers Arthur Melmoth Walters and Percy Melmoth Walters.[3] His daughter Gertrude married barrister Thomas Richard Rawlinson, a relative of Sir Christopher Rawlinson;[5] their son was the soldier and screenwriter/ film producer A. R. Rawlinson.[6][7]
Career
editWalters was head of the firm Walters and Company, of Lincoln's Inn, which was founded in about 1780; member of Council and Past President of the Incorporated Law Society; Solicitor to the Law Life Assurance Society; Director of the Law Fire Insurance Society; Director of the Law Debenture Corporation, the Law Accident Insurance Society, and the Solicitors' Benevolent Association; member of the Solicitors' Discipline Committee, appointed under the Act of 1888, the Committee of Inspection of Trustee Savings Banks, appointed under the Savings Banks Act of 1891, the Committee of Proprietors of Lincoln's Inn, and of the Rule Making Committee under the Land Transfer Acts.[1]
Walters was a Conservative in politics, and Chairman of Ewell, Cuddington and Malden Conservative Association.
Hobbies
editHe enjoyed fishing in Norway and Scotland, and shooting in Surrey. He travelled on the Continent frequently in his earlier years, and visited the Cape, Tasmania and Australia, Madeira, Teneriffe.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "William Melmoth Walters". 1900s biographies. Epsom & Ewell History Explorer. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
- ^ Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, Part 1, A. C. Fox-Davies, T. C. & E. C. Jack (Edinburgh), 1895 p. 1010
- ^ a b King., William Fletcher. "Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica : (Volume 3)". p. 28. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
- ^ "Wliiam Melmoth (1710-1799)". English Poetry 1579-1830: Spenser and the Tradition. Virginia Tech. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
- ^ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland for 1850, vol. II, John B. Burke, Henry Colburn, 1850, p. 1101
- ^ Who was Who in the Theatre, 1912-1976, vol. 4 Q-Z, Gale Research Co., 1978, p. 1989
- ^ The Law Times, vol. 96, 1894, p. 46