Sir William Treloar, 1st Baronet
Lord Mayor of London (1843–1923)
Sir William Purdie Treloar, 1st Baronet (13 January 1843 – 6 September 1923) was an English businessman who was Sheriff of London in 1889–1900 and Lord Mayor of London in 1906–1907. He established an active "Cripples' Fund" as his mayoral appeal.
Career
Treloar was born in London, and educated at King's College School. He was head of the firm of Treloar and Sons (haberdashery), and Director and Trustee of T. Cook and Son. He was selected an Alderman of the City of London for the Ward of Farringdon Without from 1892, a Sheriff of the City of London in 1899 and Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1906–1907.
On St Thomas's Day, 21 December 1881, he became a Common Councilman for the Ward of Farringdon Without. He served as a Common Councilman until he became its Alderman in 1892.
He was the author of A Lord Mayor's Diary 1906-7 (1920) and of the earlier works Ludgate Hill: Past and Present (1881, 2nd ed 1892), Prince of Palms (1884), With the Kaiser in the East, 1898 (1915) and Wilkes and the City (1917).
Lord Mayor of London
Sir William Treloar established a "Cripples' Fund" as his mayoral appeal, for which he gained 10,000 pounds of donations for his Alton Hospital during his tenure as Lord Mayor of London 9 November 1906 to 1907. Sir William and Lady Treloar greeted their first patients at Alton railway station on 8 September 1908 and a new branch was opened at Sandy Point, Hayling Island, in September 1919, with 50 patients.
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