Sir William Pratt Call, 2nd Baronet (28 September 1781 – 3 December 1851) is best known for holding the office of High Sheriff of Cornwall between 1807 and 1808, and for being a partner in a London banking house.[1]

He was the fifth child and second son of Sir John Call of Whiteford, 1st Baronet (30 June 1732 – 1 March 1801) [2] and his wife Philadelphia Batty.[3] He was educated between 1797 and 1799 in Winchester College, and succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet Call, of Whiteford, Cornwall, upon the death of his father on 1 March 1801. Call played first-class cricket 1817 and 1818 as a member of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).[4]

He married Louisa Georgina Forbes (December, 1779 – 25 January 1830) on 19 June 1806. They had four children (three daughters and a son), as follows: Phillida Elizabeth, who married the Rev. George Henry Somerset in 1835; Georgiana Mary, who died in 1837; William Berkeley Call, who succeeded him as the third Baronet; and Augusta, who married Capt. George D. Patterson of the British 98th Regiment.[5] The Baronetcy was extinguished with the death of fourth Baronet, William George Montagu Call, on 22 December 1864. He was a partner with Call, Marten & Company of Old Bond Street, a London banking house, founded by his father,.[6][2] He died at age 70 in Whiteford House, Stoke Climsland, Cornwall.

References

  1. ↑ Peerage.com website
  2. 1 2 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article by D. L. Prior, Call, Sir John, first baronet (1732–1801), accessed 11 Sept 2006
  3. ↑ Ancestry of the Stanier family of Colchester website
  4. ↑ Haygarth, Arthur (1862). Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744–1826). Lillywhite. pp. 397–416.
  5. ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine, by Sylvanus Urban, Vol. 37, New Series, 1852, January to June, Inclusive. Published by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, London
  6. ↑ Location of Call, Marten & Co. Archives


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