William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher

The Right Honourable The Viscount Esher PC
Lord Esher by John Everett Millais.
Solicitor-General
In office 10 February 1868 – 16 September 1868
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	Benjamin Disraeli
Preceded by	Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn
Succeeded by	Sir Richard Baggallay
Master of the Rolls
In office April 1883 – 1897
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	Sir George Jessel
Succeeded by	Sir Nathaniel Lindley
Personal details
Born	13 August 1815 (1815-08-13) [1]
Died	24 May 1899 (1899-05-25) (aged 83) London, England
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Eugénie Mayer
Children	3, including Reginald
Alma mater	King's College London Caius College, Cambridge

William Baliol Brett, 1st Viscount Esher, PC (13 August 1815 – 24 May 1899), known as Sir William Brett between 1868 and 1883, was a British lawyer, judge, and Conservative politician. He was briefly Solicitor-General under Benjamin Disraeli and then served as a justice of the Court of Common Pleas between 1868 and 1876, as a Lord Justice of Appeal between 1876 and 1883 and as Master of the Rolls. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Esher in 1885 and further honoured when he was made Viscount Esher on his retirement in 1897.