James Leslie Wanklyn
James Leslie Wanklyn was a Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Bradford Central, elected at the 1895 general election and again at the following general election in 1900. He did not stand at the 1906 election.Biography
Wanklyn was born in 1860 in Holdenhurst, Hampshire, to James Hibbert Wanklyn and Elizabeth Wanklyn.
Wanklyn had numerous sporting interests. He was a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club, for whom he played one first-class match in 1885, and an early leading member, from its inception in 1894, of the Ranelagh Club, noted as a polo and golf centre.
He died on 6 July 1919 in Northampton.Family
In August 1898, he married Laura Mary Stapylton.
