Sir William Henry Prescott, 1st Baronet, CBE, DL (1874 – 15 June 1945) was a British engineer and Conservative Party politician.
[1] He subsequently took up a career in civil engineering, acting as a consultant to a number of government committees on water supply and roads.
[1] During the First World War he was commanding officer of 222nd Field Company, Royal Engineers, part of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front.
Unusually for a Conservative, he was sponsored by a trade union, the National Association of Local Government Officers, of which he held membership.
[1] A longtime member of Middlesex County Council where he served as an alderman and vice-chairman, he represented the authority on the Metropolitan Water Board (MWB).