Constituency : Newark 1870-80
Samuel took over at Newark after the death of Edward Denison. He was elected as an opponent of the Contagious Diseases Act, the support of Josephine Butler and other Repealers forcing the withdrawal of the government-backed candidate Henry Storks a fervent supporter of the Acts.
Smuel came from a landowning family. He was educated at Cambridge and became a barrister. He was Recorder of Newark at the time of his election and resigned that post.
Samuel was defeated in 1880; he tried to get back in at Nottinghamshire South but was easily defeated.
Samuel became a County Court judge instead. Despite this regular income he had to sell part of the family estate in 1888 due to the agricultural depression. In 1889 he found against a German manufacturer of false teeth who was chasing payment; the man followed him out of court and shot him at Nottingham station. He survived but the bullet remained in his body.
Samuel retired in 1891. He died in 1897 aged 74.
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