William Wells (15 March 1818 – 1 May 1889)[1][2] was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1852 to 1857 and from 1868 to 1874.
and his wife Lady Elizabeth Proby, daughter of John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort, and grandson of Vice-Admiral Thomas Wells, of Holme, whose father, William, had inherited the estate from his wife's uncle, Thomas Truman, in 1768.
[6] An election petition was lodged by Wells[7] on the grounds that Glover was not duly qualified,[8] because he did not meet the property-holding requirements.
[10] A by-election was held on 11 August 1853, when Wells stood again, but was defeated by the Conservative candidate Henry Edwards.
[11] He won the seat at the 1868 general election,[12] defeating the Liberal MP Thomson Hankey,[11] a former Governor of the Bank of England.