Sir William Prescott, 1st Baronet

Sir William Henry Prescott, 1st Baronet, CBE, DL (1874 – 15 June 1945), was a British engineer and Conservative Party politician.

The son of John Prescott, he initially studied law and was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1909. He subsequently took up a career in civil engineering, acting as a consultant to a number of government committees on water supply and roads.

Prescott stood down at the 1922 election. He was appointed a CBE in 1920 for his role is raising troops in Tottenham and was knighted in 1921. He was also awarded the King Albert Medal by Albert I of Belgium. He co-founded the Tottenham War Services Institute in 1920. He was appointed in 1924 as a Deputy Lieutenant of Middlesex, and in 1929 served as High Sheriff of the county. He was also a member of a number of other committees connected with Middlesex, a member of the Worshipful Company of Paviors and the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass and a Freeman of the City of London. In the same year he served as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.

In 1898 he married Bessie Stanley of Ambleside, and they had four children. He died at his Godmanchester home in June 1945 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Richard Stanley Prescott. His second son, William Robert Stanley Prescott was MP for Darwen.