19 August 1610, Sandbach – 1680) was an English lawyer, judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654.
[1] In 1648 he was chosen to be Recorder of London, and he was one of the four counsel appointed to conduct the case against Charles I in January 1649, but illness prevented him from discharging this duty.
[2] At the Restoration he obtained the full benefits of the Act of Indemnity, but he thought it advisable to reside for a time in Holland.
[2] William was the nephew of Thomas Steele (died 1643), who was shot for surrendering Beeston Castle in the Civil War.
His daughter, Mary Steele (died 1673), married George Boddington (1646–1719), a director of the Bank of England.