William Best, 1st Baron Wynford

William Draper Best, 1st Baron Wynford, PC (13 December 1767 – 3 March 1845), was a British politician and judge.

He was educated at Crewkerne Grammar School[2] and became a student at Wadham College, Oxford at the age of 15, but left at 17 without a degree.

Originally destined for a career in the Church, he instead chose to study law, and entered the Middle Temple on 9 October 1784.

Best was admitted to the Privy Council in 1824 and appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, a position he held until 1829.

In 1794, Lord Wynford married Mary Anne, daughter of Jerome Knapp Jr. of Chilton in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), Clerk of the Haberdashers' Company, by his second wife, Sarah, daughter and eventual heiress of George Noyes of Southcote, Berkshire, and Andover, Hampshire.