William Frederick Holmes à Court, 3rd Baron Heytesbury of Heytesbury

William Frederick Holmes à Court, 3rd Baron Heytesbury (25 June 1862 – 15 August 1903) was a British peer and landowner in Wiltshire, a member of the House of Lords from 1891 until his death.

Background and education He was the elder son of William Leonard Holmes à Court (1835–1885) and his wife Isabella Sophia, a daughter of the Reverend Richard à Court Beadon, whose mother, Annabella à Court (1781–1866) had been a daughter of Sir William à Court, 1st Baronet.

Career On 21 April 1891, he succeeded his grandfather William à Court-Holmes as Baron Heytesbury (1828) and as a Baronet (1795). He was a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire.

Land-holding Heytesbury's entry in Who's Who 1903 said he "owned about 13,400 acres" and lived at Heytesbury, Wiltshire, and Westover, Newport, Isle of Wight. He died in 1903, at Heytesbury House, and since 1901 had been master of the South and West Wilts Hunt. He was succeeded by his younger brother, Leonard Holmes à Court.