William Churchman

Colonel Sir William Alfred Churchman, 1st Baronet, (23 August 1863 – 25 November 1947 ) was an English tobacco manufacturer and public servant.

Churchman was born in Ipswich, Suffolk. He went into partnership with his brother, Arthur, in the family tobacco firm which had been founded by their great-grandfather in 1790. This was renamed W. A. & A. C. Churchman. It was later absorbed by the tobacco combines and Churchman became a director of the Imperial Tobacco Company.

Churchman was a staunch Conservative and was elected mayor of Ipswich in 1901. In 1911, he became a justice of the peace for Suffolk. having the honour conferred on 25 June 1920. He was created a Baronet of Melton, in the County of Suffolk on 29 June 1938, which became extinct upon his death.

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