William Malcolm Low was a British Conservative party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician. He was the Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for the Grantham division

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 of Lincolnshire

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 from 1886 to 1892.

He was born at Lucknow

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, son of General Sir John Low KCB and Augusta Ludlow Shakespear. His mother was the daughter of John Talbot Shakespear by his wife Amelia Thackeray, and thus a first cousin of novelist William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray

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. On 30 July 1872 he married Lady Ida Feilding, daughter of William Feilding, 7th Earl of Denbigh

William Feilding, 7th Earl of Denbigh

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. Through their daughter Hilda, who married Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet

Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet

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, he is a great-great-grandfather of Prime Minister David Cameron

David Cameron

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. His brother was General Sir Robert Cunliffe Low GCB.