William Perring

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| name = William Perring

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| office1 = Member of Parliament for Paddington North

| term1 = 1918-1929

| office2 = Mayor of Paddington

| term2 = 1911-1912

| party = Conservative

| birth_date = {{birth date|1866|03|17|df=yes}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1937|08|24|1866|03|17|df=yes}}

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Sir William George Perring (17 March 1866 – 24 August 1937){{cite web

| url = http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons1.htm

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080928062620/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons1.htm

| archive-date = 28 September 2008

| title = House of Commons constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)

| work = Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages

| url-status = usurped

| accessdate = 2009-04-21

}} was a British Conservative politician.

Biography

A member of Paddington Borough Council, he served as mayor of Paddington from 1911 to 1912.{{cite news|title=The Mayoral Elections|newspaper=The Times|date=10 November 1911|page=7}} He was first elected to the House of Commons at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Paddington North, when he stood as a Coalition Conservative (a holder of the "coalition coupon" issued to supporters of the coalition government led by David Lloyd George"). He was re-elected at the next three elections, and retired from the House of Commons at the 1929 general election.{{cite book

|last=Craig

|first=F. W. S.

|authorlink= F. W. S. Craig

|title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949

|origyear=1969

|edition=3rd

|year=1983

|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn= 0-900178-06-X

|page=39

}}

Perring laid the foundation stone for the Porchester Centre in Bayswater in 1923, and opened the building in 1925. He also bequeathed a sculpture, The Reading Girl, which remains part of the entrance hall in this Grade II* listed building.{{Cite web |title=Porchester Centre, Non Civil Parish - 1262987 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1262987 |access-date=2022-04-11 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}}{{Cite journal |date=Spring 2021 |title=A Piece of Porchester History |url=https://www.sebra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/sebra-news-spring-2021-online.pdf |journal=SEBRA News W2 |issue=101}}

He died on 24 August 1937, aged 71.