William Cripps

William Cripps (1 January 1805 – 11 May 1848) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament.

Early life Cripps was born 1 January 1805 and baptised at Cirencester on 17 May 1805. He was the eldest son of Joseph Cripps, and, his second wife, Dorothea Harrison. His father served as MP for Cirencester. His brother, Henry William Cripps, QC, was the father of William Harrison Cripps, the prominent British surgeon, and politician Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor.

Cripps matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford on 25 May 1822, aged 17. He received a B.A. in 1826 and M.A. in 1829.

Career He was admitted to the Inner Temple and became a barrister-at-law in 1829. Wilfred Joseph Cripps (1841–1903), who married Maria Harriet Arabella Daniel-Tyssen, sister of Charles Daniel-Tyssen, in 1870. After her death in 1881, he married Countess Helene von Bismarck-Schierstein, daughter of Count Friedrich von Bismarck and granddaughter of Sir Henry Williams-Wynn, in 1884. Catherine Dorothy Cripps (1842–1909) Edmund William Cripps (1843–1899), who married Ada Radcliffe, a daughter of Lt.Gen. Robert Parker Radcliffe. Walter Mainwaring Cripps (1844–1900).

Cripps died on 11 May 1848 and was buried in St. Catherine's Chapel within Cirencester Church on 18 May 1848. His will, dated 31 July 1840, was proved 30 August 1848.