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William Somervell
William Henry Somervell (5 April 1860 – 26 September 1934) was an English businessman, philanthropist and Liberal politician.
==Family and education==
William Somervell was born at Kendal in Westmorland on 5 April 1860, the son of John Somervell. He was educated at Stramongate School, Kendal〔The Times, 27 September 1934 p14〕 and the Grove House School, Tottenham. In 1889 he married Florence Howard of Bickley, near Chislehurst in Kent. They had two sons and a daughter.〔''Who was Who'', OUP 2007〕 One of his sons, Dr Howard Somervell (1890–1975), was medical missionary for the London Missionary Society (LMS) hospital at Neyyor, Travancore in southern India〔The Times, 27 September 1934 p14〕 and a mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest and was a colleague of George Mallory.〔Cecil Northcott, ''(Theodore) Howard Somervell'' in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' online ; OUP 2004–10〕
In religion Somervell was a Congregationalist; an elder of the Zion Congregational Church at Kendal and for many years the superintendent of the Sunday School there.〔The Times, 27 September 1934 p14〕 He was a long-serving Treasurer of the London Missionary Society〔The Times, 20 August 1931 p7〕 and was regarded as an influential lay member of the country's Christian churches.〔The Times, 27 November 1914 p5〕 He twice (in 1913 and again in 1922) was a member of an LMS deputation to India. As a dedicated teetotaller, Somervell was a keen advocate of the LMS' work to promote temperance.〔The Times, 27 September 1934 p14〕
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