William Ballantine (MP)

William Henry Walter Ballantine was a British Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1887 to 1895.
Samuelson unsuccessfully contested the 1885 general election in the [Tewkesbury (UK Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament constituency)|Tewkesbury] division of Gloucestershire.
He entered Parliament nearly two years later, when Ballantine was elected at a by-election in July 1887 as the Member of Parliament for the city of Coventry, following the elevation to the peerage of the Conservative MP Henry Eaton.
He was re-elected at the next general election, in 1892, but was defeated at the 1895 general election and did not stand for Parliament again.