William Perring

Sir William George Perring (17 March 1866 – 24 August 1937)[1] was a British Conservative politician.

For those of a similar name, see William Perrin (disambiguation).

A member of Paddington Borough Council, he served as mayor of Paddington from 1911 to 1912.[2] He was first elected to the House of Commons at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Paddington North, when he stood as a Coalition Conservative (a holder of the "coalition coupon" issued to supporters of the coalition government led by David Lloyd George"). He was re-elected at the next three elections, and retired from the House of Commons at the 1929 general election.[3]

Perring laid the foundation stone for the Porchester Centre in Bayswater in 1923, and opened the building in 1925. He also bequeathed a sculpture, The Reading Girl, which remains part of the entrance hall in this Grade II* listed building.[4][5]

He died on 24 August 1937, aged 71.[1]

References
  1. "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 28 September 2008. Retrieved 21 April 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. "The Mayoral Elections". The Times. 10 November 1911. p. 7.
  3. Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 39. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
  4. "Porchester Centre, Non Civil Parish - 1262987 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  5. "A Piece of Porchester History" (PDF). SEBRA News W2 (101). Spring 2021.


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