mr speaker golly William Court Gully, 1st Viscount Selby, QC , PC (29 August 1835 – 6 November 1909) was a Speaker of the Britis
William Court Gully, 1st Viscount Selby, QC , PC (29 August 1835 – 6 November 1909) was a Speaker of the British House of Commons, and the son of Dr James Manby Gully of Malvern. Dr. Gully had a splendid career as a physician in charge of a water-cure establishment with many celebrated patients. Dr. Gully was later involved in the mysterious death of Charles Bravo in April 1876. His grandfather was Daniel Gully, a Jamaican coffee planter., He was educated at University College School, London and then Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] where he was president of the Union. He was called to the bar in 1860, went the northern circuit, and took silk in 1877. In 1880 and 1883 he unsuccessfully contested Whitehaven as a Liberal, but was elected for Carlisle in 1886, and continued to represent that constituency until his elevation to the peerage. In April 1895 he was elected Speaker by a majority of eleven votes over Sir Matthew White Ridley (cr. Viscount Ridley, 1900), the Unionist nominee. The choice of Gully was a surprise to Lord Rosebery's Cabinet. Rosebery did not want a Unionist as the new Speaker of the House of Commons, but rejected the two alternatives of Richard Haldane and Sir Frank Lockwood. Rosebery faced hostility in his cabinet from Sir William Harcourt and from the opposition, and Harcourt wanted Leonard Henry Courtney as Speaker. Harcourt viewed this as purely a matter for the House of Commons (Rosebery being in the House of Lords). To Rosebery it became a minor Cabinet crisis. Finally in disgust Hartcourt placed the onus of the decision on Rosebery. Eventually the backbenchers of the Commons who knew Gully propelled him - most likely because he was close to Sir William Herschell. Hartcourt was forced to produce the name to the House of Commons. The Conservatives were not happy about his selection, and (recalling the scandal that engulfed his father) would greet his appearance in the House with cries of "Bravo, Gully!".[2] In 1905 he resigned and was rai
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