Hildred Carlile

Sir Edward Hildred Carlile, 1st Baronet, CBE (10 July 1852 – 26 September 1942) was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician.

In business he was a partner in the firm of Jonas Brook & Brothers, Meltham Mills, Huddersfield.

[3] Due to ill-health[4] he resigned from the House of Commons on 20 November 1919 by the procedural device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Manor of Northstead.

He was also active in the Yeomanry and Volunteers, eventually becoming Honorary Colonel of the 5th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment (1906–39).

He unsuccessfully stood as the Conservative candidate in the 1921 Hertford by-election In 1914 he gave 100,000 guineas (an enormous sum in those days) as an endowment to Bedford College, University of London (he was the first Fellow on the Council of the College), which made possible the establishment of Chairs in Botany, English, Latin, and Physics.