William Jellett

{{Infobox officeholder

| image =

| parliament = United Kingdom

| constituency_MP = Dublin University

| term_start = 28 July 1919

| term_end = 6 December 1922

| predecessor = {{ubl|Arthur Samuels|Robert Woods}}

| successor = Constituency abolished

| party = Irish Unionist

| birth_date = {{birth date|1857|5|19|df=y}}

| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1936|10|27|1857|5|19|df=y}}

| death_place = Dublin, Ireland

| alma_mater = Trinity College Dublin

| education =

| spouse = Janet McKenzie Stokes

| children = 4, including Mainie

| father = John Hewitt Jellett

| relatives = Eva Jellett (sister)

}}

William Morgan Jellett, QC (19 May 1857 – 27 October 1936) was an Irish Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Irish Unionists were the Irish wing of the Conservative Party.

Biography

He was born in Dublin, the son of Rev. John Hewitt Jellett, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin and his wife and cousin Dorothea Charlotte Morris. His sister Eva Jellett was a pioneering female doctor.

He attended Trinity College Dublin, before being called to the Irish Bar in 1882.{{Cite wikisource|title=Thom's Irish Who's Who/Jellett, William Morgan|last=|first=|year=}} He became a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1899. He was private secretary to Lord Ashbourne, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1885–1886, 1886–1892 and 1895–1905.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQcWAQAAIAAJ&q=jellett|title=Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: A Biographical Dictionary of the House of Commons |first1=Michael|last1=Stenton |first2=Stephen|last2=Lees |volume=III, 1919-1945 |date=17 June 1976 |publisher=Harvester Press |isbn=9780855273255 |via=Google Books}}

Jellett stood for election in the Dublin University constituency at the 1918 general election.{{Cite web|url=https://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=1006|title=ElectionsIreland.org: William Jellett|website=electionsireland.org}} On 28 July 1919, he was elected in a by-election, being the last United Kingdom MP elected in the twenty-six counties which became the Irish Free State in December 1922. Jellett ceased to be an MP on 26 October 1922 on the dissolution of parliament, and his constituency ceased to be represented in the United Kingdom Parliament.{{Rayment-hc|date=March 2012}}

He married Janet McKenzie Stokes, a talented musician, and they had four daughters, including the celebrated artist Mainie Jellett, and Dorothea (Bay) Jellett, who for many years conducted the orchestra at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.{{Cite web|url=https://sandymount.weebly.com/the-jellet-sisters.html |title=The Jellet Sisters |publisher=Church of St. John the Evangelist, Sandymount}}