{"id":142,"date":"2010-08-18T13:22:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T12:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=142"},"modified":"2022-08-16T17:31:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T16:31:27","slug":"william-willett-b-1856-advocate-of-daylight-saving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"William Willett (b 1856): Advocate of Daylight Saving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>William Willett is most memorable as the advocate of Daylight Saving or British Summer Time. He was the eldest son of my Great Great Grandfather (through my mother&#8217;s adoptive line), also William Willett, who started the building company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>It is said that one morning when he was out riding in Petts Wood, Chislehurst he noticed that many people&#8217;s houses still had their blinds down. Subsequently in 1907 he wrote a pamphlet called &#8220;The Waste of Daylight&#8221; and started to lobby parliament for a Daylight Saving Bill. He died before a bill was passed during the First World War to implement daylight saving (as an attempt to boost wartime production).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.<\/p><cite>Winston Churchill, As quoted in: David Prerau, <em>Seize the Daylight: The Curious And Contentious Story of Daylight<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>William Willett&#8217;s pamphlet <a title=\"third party website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webexhibits.org\/daylightsaving\/willett.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Waste of Daylight<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/utility\/willcreatenewwindow.gif\" alt=\"open new window\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\"\/><\/a> (republished on webexhibts.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Willett was the son of the William Willett who started the building company. However he is most memorable as the advocate of Daylight Saving or British Summer Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,8,124,12,54,120,50,31],"tags":[125,236,217,145,215,208],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1837-1911","category-1912-99","category-daylight-saving","category-england","category-publication","category-complete","category-willett","category-workbusiness","tag-british-summer-time","tag-daylight-saving","tag-publication","tag-waste-of-daylight","tag-willett","tag-workbusiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}