William Weston III

William Weston III (fl. 1415–1447) of Ockham, Surrey, was an English politician.

Family

He was the son of William Weston, MP for Surrey, and his son, John Weston, was also an MP. The Weston family were prominent in the area.

Career

He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Guildford in 1415, 1419, 1423 and 1431, and then for Surrey in 1447.[1]

gollark: i.e. demonstrate that they can actually function well, enforce the law reasonably, have reasonable laws *to* enforce in the first place, with available resources/data, **before** invading everyone's privacy with the insistence that they will totally make everyone safer.
gollark: Reduced privacy in return for more safety and stuff might be better if governments had a track record of, well, actually doing that sort of thing effectively.
gollark: I... see.
gollark: Invading people's privacy a lot allows you to get somewhat closer to "perfect enforcement".
gollark: Anyway, broadly speaking, governments *cannot* perfectly enforce their laws, and this is part of the reason they work generally somewhat okay. If they could *immediately* go from "government doesn't/does think you could do X" to "you can no longer do/not do X without punishment", we would likely have significantly less fair institutions.

References
  1. WESTON, William III, of Ockham, Surr. The History of Parliament. Retrieved 2 November 2016.


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