James Leslie Wanklyn

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James Wanklyn
Member of the UK Parliament
In office
1897–1906
Preceded byGeorge Shaw Lefevre
Succeeded byGeorge Scott Robertson
ConstituencyBradford Central
Personal details
Born
James Leslie Wanklyn

(1860-04-14)14 April 1860
Holdenhurst, Hampshire
Died6 July 1919(1919-07-06) (aged 59)
Lanrick Castle, Doune
Political partyLiberal Unionist
EducationNorthampton
OccupationPolitician

James Leslie Wanklyn (14 April 1860 – 6 July 1919) was a Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Bradford Central, elected at the 1895 general election[1] and again at the following general election in 1900.[1] He did not stand at the 1906 election.

Biography[edit]

Wanklyn was born in 1860 in Holdenhurst, Hampshire,[2] to James Hibbert Wanklyn and Elizabeth Wanklyn (née Leslie).[3]

Wanklyn had numerous sporting interests. He was a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club, for whom he played one first-class match in 1885,[2] and an early leading member, from its inception in 1894, of the Ranelagh Club, noted as a polo and golf centre.[4]

He died on 6 July 1919[5] in Northampton.[2]

Family[edit]

In August 1898, he married Laura Mary Stapylton (her first husband, Huntly Bacon, died in June 1897).[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918, FWS Craig
    - The Liberal Year Book, 1907
    - Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
  2. ^ a b c James Wanklyn at espncricinfo.com
  3. ^ james Wanklyn at myheritage.com
  4. ^ T. F. Dale, The Classic Guide to Polo, first published 1905; later published by Amberley Publishing, 2015, ISBN 9781445648668
  5. ^ "Re JAMES LESLIE WANKLYN, Deceased.". The London Gazette, 16 September 1919
  6. ^ The Marquis of Ruvigny and Ranieval (May 2013). The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume. p. 99. ISBN 9780788418723.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Bradford Central
18951906
Succeeded by