Sir William Walter Carlile, 1st Baronet, OBE, DL, JP (15 June 1862 – 3 January 1950)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician from Gayhurst in Buckinghamshire who served from 1895 to 1906 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Buckingham or (Northern) division of Buckinghamshire.

[3] He was educated at Harrow and at Clare College, Cambridge,[4] and later became a lieutenant of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry (the former Royal Buckinghamshire Militia (King's Own)).

[6] Carlile first stood for Parliament at the 1892 general election, when he was defeated in Buckingham by the sitting Liberal Party MP Herbert Samuel Leon.

[9] He stood down from the House of Commons at the 1906 general election, when Buckingham was won by the Liberal Frederick William Verney.

[10] Having been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1918,[11] Carlile was made a baronet, of Gayhurst in the County of Buckingham, in the 1928 Birthday Honours.