Sir William Rutherford, 1st Baronet
Sir William Watson Rutherford, 1st Baronet (1853 – 3 December 1927) was a Conservative party politician in the United Kingdom who was Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of Liverpool.
Rutherford was from Liverpool, where he was head of a leading legal firm. He was elected to the City Council in 1895.[1]
Rutherford was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1900 general election for the Liverpool Scotland constituency. He was elected Lord Mayor of Liverpool in November 1902,[2] but resigned in early January 1903 to be the candidate in a by-election for parliament.[3] After he was elected to parliament on 20 January 1903, he was also re-elected as mayor on 4 February 1903 and served the remainder of the term until November 1903.[4] He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool West Derby from the January 1903 by-election until 1918, and for Liverpool Edge Hill from 1918 to 1923.
He was knighted in the 1918 New Year Honours and made a baronet on 24 July 1923. He developed the Rutherford Code for transmitting chess moves over a telegraph.
He was a key member of Liverpool Chess Club
References
- ^ "Election intelligence". The Times. No. 36970. London. 6 January 1903. p. 4.
- ^ "Election of Mayors". The Times. No. 36922. London. 11 November 1902. p. 12.
- ^ "Election intelligence". The Times. No. 36971. London. 7 January 1903. p. 8.
- ^ "Former Mayors and Lord Mayors of the City of Liverpool". Liverpool City Council. Archived from the original on 22 August 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2008.