William Cazalet

William Marshall Cazalet (8 July 1865 – 22 October 1932) was a wealthy British landowner who represented Great Britain at the 1908 Olympic Games in jeu de paume (real tennis).

Early life Cazalet was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on 8 July 1865. He was the son of Edward Cazalet, merchant and industrialist, and his wife, Elizabeth Sutherland Marshall (d. 1888), daughter and heir of William Marshall, doctor and Danish consul in Edinburgh. Cazalet graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1889. At Oxford, he won a Blue in real tennis (jeu de paume) in 1886, 1887 and 1889, and won the singles in 1889.

Cazalet was painted by John Singer Sargent in 1902, with his horse and wearing a hunting jacket. The painting was sold at Christie's, New York in May 2007, with an estimate of US$2–3 million, and realised $1.832 million. In 2015, Barbra Streisand donated Sargent's 1900–01 group portrait of his wife and two children, Mrs. Cazalet and Children Edward and Victor, to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Personal life Mrs. Cazalet with Edward and Victor Cazalet, by John Singer Sargent, 1900–01 He married Maud Lucia Heron-Maxwell (known as Molly; d. 1952), daughter of Sir John Robert Heron Heron-Maxwell, 7th Baronet.

Cazalet's eldest son Edward, born 1894, was killed in action in France in 1916.