Sir William Beale, 1st Baronet

Sir William Phipson Beale, 1st Baronet, KC (29 October 1839 – 13 April 1922) was a British barrister and Liberal Party politician.

They had commercial interests in banking, railways and ironworks and were associated through business, marriage or politics to many other well-known Birmingham figures; his brother Charles, was uncle to Neville Chamberlain.

[7] But Beale's father was a solicitor practising in Birmingham and the son too wished to go in for the law.

He was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1867,[8] became Queen's Counsel in 1888, in honour of which he was presented to the Prince of Wales,[9] and a Bencher in 1892.

[16] His younger brother, Alderman Charles Gabriel Beale (1843–1912), was Lord Mayor of Birmingham three times in the period between 1897 and 1905.

His funeral took place at Golders Green Crematorium on 19 April 1922 attended by family members, politicians and representatives of scientific organisations.