Sir William Oglander, 1st Baronet

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Sir William Oglander, 1st Baronet (c. 1611–1670) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1670. He supported the Royalists in the English Civil War. He was the son of Sir John Oglander and Frances More, daughter of Sir George More of Loseley Park, Surrey. His father was deputy governor of Portsmouth and then of the Isle of Wight. In April 1640 he was elected MP for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, in the Short Parliament, a seat his father had held before, but he offended the town and never sat. The Oglander family remained loyal to King Charles and suffered during the Civil War. After the Restoration, in 1660 Oglander was elected MP for Newport (Isle of Wight) and served until his death in 1670. He became deputy-governor of the Isle of Wight in 1664 and was created baronet of Nunwell in the County of Southampton on 12 December 1665. Oglander married Dorothy Clerke, daughter of Sir Francis Clerke; their son John inherited the baronetcy.