Sir Cuthbert Quilter, 1st Baronet
Sir William Cuthbert Quilter, 1st Baronet (29 January 1841 – 18 November 1911) was an English stock broker, art collector and Liberal/Liberal Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906.
He became a stockbroker and would eventually head the firm of Quilter Balfour & Co.[2] He was an art collector,[3] and one of the founders of the National Telephone Company.
[9] His second son, Lt. Col. John Arnold Cuthbert Quilter served in the Royal Naval Division in World War 1, and was killed at Gallipoli on 6 May 1915.
Quilter's battalion had included the poet Rupert Brooke, who had died of illness on 23 April.
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Quilter as caricatured by Liborio Prosperi in Vanity Fair , February 1889
