William Alexander McArthur

William Alexander McArthur (1857 – 7 June 1923), was a British Liberal politician and businessman.

[1][2] McArthur's father was a businessman and politician in Australia and England, becoming MP for Leicester.

On 12 August 1890 at the Trinity Wesleyan Church, Abingdon-on-Thames, Berkshire, he married Florence Creemer (died 24 October 1940),[4] the third daughter of John Creemer Clarke of Wayste Court, Abingdon, and the couple had one son and two daughters.

[5] McArthur was elected to Parliament for Buckrose at the 1886 general election, with a majority of a single vote, but was unseated on a scrutiny being held and the seat was awarded to the Conservative candidate, Christopher Sykes.

McArthur served in the Liberal administrations of William Ewart Gladstone and the Earl of Rosebery as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1892 to 1895.