Sir William Arthur Colegate (1884 – 10 September 1956) was a British Conservative Party politician who served in the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1941 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1955.
He was educated privately before he entered University College London,[2] where he joined the Fabian Society and acted as a research assistant to Beatrice and Sydney Webb.
[1] He was a director of Brunner Mond and Company until 1927 (following their amalgamation into ICI) and British Overseas Stores[3] and was chairman of W.G.
[3] On 22 November 1917, Colegate married Winifred Mary Pemberton, daughter of Sir William Worsley, 3rd Baronet, and widow of Captain Francis Percy Campbell Pemberton of the 2nd Life Guards who had been killed in action in the First World War in 1914.
[3] Besides in London, Colegate had homes at Redbourne Hall near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire and Church Aston Manor near Newport, Shropshire in 1945[2] and at the time of his death lived at Bembridge, Isle of Wight.