John Shiress Will

John Shiress Will QC, born John Will (1840–1910) was a British legal writer and politician. He was born in Dundee, the son of John Will, a merchant, and his wife Mary Chambers. He was educated at Brechin Grammar School and afterwards Edinburgh University and King's College London, although he graduated from neither. In 1861 he was admitted to the Middle Temple, being called to the bar in 1864. In 1883 he was made Queen's Counsel, and was made a Bencher of the Middle Temple in 1888.

In 1885 he was elected as a Member of Parliament representing Montrose Burghs, a position he was reelected to in 1886, 1892 and 1895. He was a strong supporter of William Gladstone, and deliberately left his position in 1896 so that John Morley could be reelected after a defeat in Newcastle.

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