Sir William Treloar, 1st Baronet

He was the author of A Lord Mayor's Diary 1906-7 (1920)[4] and of the earlier works Ludgate Hill: Past and Present (1881, 2nd ed 1892), Prince of Palms (1884), With the Kaiser in the East, 1898 (1915) and Wilkes and the City (1917).

During his period of office as Lord Mayor he made a ceremonial visit to Cornwall, the county from which his ancestors came.

[7] He was knighted by Queen Victoria in his year as sheriff, at Windsor Castle on 29 March 1900.

On 17 July 1907 he was created a baronet, of Grange Mount in the Parish of All Saints, Upper Norwood, in the Borough of Croydon.

Sir William died at his home Grange Mount, in Upper Norwood on 6 September 1923 aged 80 and was buried alongside his wife at Shirley, Surrey.