William Entwisle (30 September 1808 – 18 August 1865)[1] was a British Conservative politician.
At age 19, he was admitted as a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge before matriculating in Michaelmas in 1827, and then becoming a scholar in 1830.
[2] He became an honorary Doctor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford in 1844, and was also a chairman of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, and a partner at banking firm Loyd, Entwisle, Bury and Jervis, now part of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
[2] He was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for South Lancashire at a by-election in 1844—caused by the death of Richard Bootle-Wilbraham— and held the seat until 1847 when he did not seek re-election.
[3][2] Entwisle died in 1865 at Hanford, near Blandford in Dorset.