Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet
- Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet
Sir William Arthur Mount, 1st Baronet CBE (3 August 1866 – 8 December 1930) was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for the Newbury constituency. He was the great-grandfather of David Cameron, who was elected leader of the Conservative Party in 2005.
The eldest son of William George Mount of Wasing Place, Berkshire and Marianne Emily Clutterbuck, he was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford where he achieved honours in classics and modern history. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1893. Between 1896 and 1903 he served as assistant private secretary to two Chancellors of Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks Beach (later Viscount St. Aldwyn) and Charles Thomson Ritchie (later Baron Ritchie of Dundee). After his father stepped down as member for the South, or Newbury division of Berkshire in 1900 he was elected and served for six years before being defeated at the 1906 general election by his Liberal opponent. In the January 1910 general election he stood again and succeeded in regaining his seat where he remained until resigning in 1922. He was created a baronet in the 1921 Birthday Honours. [LondonGazette |issue=32346 |date=4 June 1921 |startpage=4530 |endpage=|supp=yes] He was deputy lieutenant and magistrate for Berkshire and was elected chairman of the Berkshire county council in 1926. He died whilst out hunting with the South Berks hounds on December 8 1930. ["The Times", "Obituaries", December 9, 1930] [LondonGazette|issue=33714|startpage=3029|date=8 May 1931|accessdate=2008-01-11]
Married on Nov 9 1899 to Hilda Lucy Adelaide Low (d. April 3 1950), parents to Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet. His wife was the daughter of Malcolm Low (b. 1835 in Lucknow, d. June 14 1923) and wife, married on July 30 1872, Lady Ida Matilda Alice Fielding (b. June 23 1840, d. December 16 1915), the paternal granddaughter of John Low (b. 1788 in Clatto, Co. Fife, d. 1880) and wife Augusta Ludlow Shakspear (b. 1809 in Calcutta, d. 1892) (daughter of John Talbot Shatspear (1783-1825) and wife Amelia Thackeray), and maternal granddaughter of the 7th Earls of Denbigh and 6th Earls of Desmond.
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