Education
Aldam studied law at the Middle Temple beginning in 1834 and was called to the bar in 1839 but never practised as a barrister.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Aldam studied law at the Middle Temple beginning in 1834 and was called to the bar in 1839 but never practised as a barrister.
He became a Justice of the Peace in the West Riding of Yorkshire court of quarter sessions in 1842 and High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1878. Aldam was noted for promoting the development of railways and canals and for his staunch supporter of free trade. A ship named William Aldam was registered at Goole in 1854 and wrecked in 1856.
His father, also called William Aldam (died 1828), was a cloth merchant in Leeds.
The family name was originally Pease, but his father changed it when he inherited the estate of the Aldam family at Frickley, near Doncaster).
14th United Kingdom Parliament.