William Praed (24 June 1747 – 9 October 1833)[1][2] was an English businessman, banker, and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1808.
In 1778, he married Elizabeth Tyringham, daughter of the banker and MP Barnaby Backwell, of Tyringham in Buckinghamshire. They had ten children.
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A partner in his family's banks in Cornwall, Praed also founded Praed's & Co in Fleet Street, London.
His family mostly controlled the borough of St Ives, which elected him to the House of Commons at the 1774 general election. An election petition was lodged alleging various forms of corruption, and Praed's election was declared void. He won the resulting by-election, and thereafter spent enough money to secure control of the borough until 1802, when he sold one of the seats.
Having already built a new country seat at Tyringham Hall in Buckinghamshire, he sold Trevethoe manor, and his interest in Cornwall waned. In 1806 he sold the second seat, and secured election at Banbury, where his money had won over the corporation. That election was voided on petition, and Praed lost the resulting by-election; he never returned to Parliament.[4]
Praed's business interests were a higher priority than parliamentary affairs, and he was particularly focused on the Grand Junction Canal, of which he was chairman. He steered through Parliament the bill which authorised its construction, and Praed Street in Paddington (near the canal's Paddington Basin) is named after him.[4]
^Roebuck, John A., ed. (1835). "Pamphlets for the People, vols 1 & 2, (1835)". Retrieved 1 April 2015.
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^Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1660–1851, Rupert Gunnis
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