James Leslie Wanklyn (14 April 1860 –6 July 1919) was a Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Bradford Central,elected at the 1895 general election [1] and again at the following general election in 1900. [1] He did not stand at the 1906 election.
Wanklyn was born in 1860 in Holdenhurst,Hampshire, [2] to James Hibbert Wanklyn and Elizabeth Wanklyn (née Leslie). [3]
Wanklyn had numerous sporting interests. He was a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club,for whom he played one first-class match in 1885, [2] and an early leading member,from its inception in 1894,of the Ranelagh Club,noted as a polo and golf centre. [4]
In August 1898,he married Laura Mary Stapylton (her first husband,Huntly Bacon,died in June 1897). [6]
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