Lieutenant-Colonel William Brocklehurst Brocklehurst (18 May 1851 – 27 June 1929)[1] was a businessman and Liberal Party politician from Macclesfield in Cheshire.
The son of William Coare Brocklehurst MP, he was educated at Cheltenham College and at Magdalen College, Oxford.
[2] He became a senior partner in the family's silk manufacturing business, Brocklehurst and Son,[2] lieutenant-colonel of the Cheshire Yeomanry, a member of Cheshire County Council,[3] and a justice of the peace for Cheshire.
[3] He was elected at the 1906 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Macclesfield division of Cheshire, defeating the sitting Unionist MP[4] to win the seat previously held by his father.
He was re-elected in January 1910 and December 1910, and stood down from Parliament at the 1918 general election.