William Killigrew Wait was born on 21st December 1826 at Cote.  His father was W.K Wait who was an Alderman and Sheriff of Bristol in 1837.  He was educated at Bristol College and first became a town councillor at the age of 41 in 1867 and was appointed Mayor in 1869.  He became an Alderman in 1886 but resigned in 1891.  President of the Dolphin Society in 1867; MP for Gloucester in 1873; re-elected in 1874 and defeated in 1880 and 1885.  He lived at St Vincent's Hall, Clifton Park and was a member of the Carlton Club (source: Bristol Biographes 1898).

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