William Coare Brocklehurst (9 February 1818 – 3 June 1900)[1] was an English Liberal Party politician and head of a family of silk producers in Macclesfield in the 19th century.
[1] Brocklehurst and his fellow MP David Chadwick were both unseated, and a Royal Commission was appointed which found that there had been extensive bribery in the borough.
[2] The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 abolished the parliamentary borough of Macclesfield, but created a new single-seat county division of Cheshire, which bore the same name but covered a wider area.
[4] In 1895 the Macclesfield High School for Girls was established in a building bought from Brocklehurst.
[5] His elder son, William Brocklehurst (1851–1933), served as mayor of Macclesfield from 1883–1885,[6] and the town's MP from 1906–1918.