William Cozens-Hardy, 2nd Baron Cozens-Hardy

In 1895, he married Gertrude Lilian the eldest daughter of Colonel Sir William Everett KCMG.

While at Oxford University he was involved in Liberal politics, being a member of the Russell Club and he was President of the Union.

William's political stance in the election has been described as a "...conventional Coalition programme: support for Lloyd George and harsh peace with Germany, jobs and houses for the returning soldiers all topped off with expressions of concern about agriculture and repeated references to his own Norfolk roots.

In the early days of his marriage he and his wife would undertake long and hazardous trips around continental Europe.

[10] This love of cars was the cause of his death as he was killed in a motor accident at Bucchof, Starnberg in Bavaria on 25 May 1924 aged 55.

As he had no male heir, the title passed to his younger brother, Edward Herbert Cozens-Hardy (1873–1956).