{{Short description|British politician}} {{For|those of a similar name|William Perrin (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = William Perring | image = | alt = | caption = | office1 = Member of Parliament for Paddington North | term1 = 1918-1929 | office2 = Mayor of Paddington | term2 = 1911-1912 | party = Conservative | birth_date = {{birth date|1866|03|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1937|08|24|1866|03|17|df=yes}} | death_place = | education = | spouse = | children = }} '''Sir William George Perring''' (17 March 1866 – 24 August 1937)<ref name="rayment">{{cite web | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons1.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080928062620/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons1.htm | archive-date = 28 September 2008 | title = House of Commons constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1) | work = Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages | url-status = usurped | accessdate = 2009-04-21 }}</ref> was a British Conservative politician.
==Biography== A member of Paddington Borough Council, he served as mayor of Paddington from 1911 to 1912.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Mayoral Elections|newspaper=The Times|date=10 November 1911|page=7}}</ref> He was first elected to the House of Commons at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Paddington North, when he stood as a Coalition Conservative (a holder of the "coalition coupon" issued to supporters of the coalition government led by David Lloyd George"). He was re-elected at the next three elections, and retired from the House of Commons at the 1929 general election.<ref name="craig1918-1949">{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 |orig-date=1969 |edition=3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X |page=39 }}</ref>
Perring laid the foundation stone for the Porchester Centre in Bayswater in 1923, and opened the building in 1925. He also bequeathed a sculpture, ''The Reading Girl'', which remains part of the entrance hall in this Grade II* listed building.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Porchester Centre, Non Civil Parish - 1262987 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1262987 |access-date=2022-04-11 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=Spring 2021 |title=A Piece of Porchester History |url=https://www.sebra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/sebra-news-spring-2021-online.pdf |journal=SEBRA News W2 |issue=101}}</ref>
He died on 24 August 1937, aged 71.<ref name="rayment" />
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