998 Samuel Walker

Constituency  : Londonderry  1884-5

Samuel  took  over  at  Londonderry  after  the  resignation  of  Andrew  Porter.

Samuel  was  the  son  of  a  captain . He  was  born in  Ireland. He  was  educated at  Portarlington  School  and  Trinity  College  Dublin. He  became  an  Irish  barrister  and  then,  in  1883, Ireland's  Solicitor  - General  making  it  desirable  that  he  should  find  a  seat  in  Parliament.

In  1885  Samuel  became  Attorney- General  for  Ireland. He  was  on  a  platform  at  a  public  meeting  called  in  response  to  the  Lords'  apparent  threat  to  the  Third  Reform  Act. He  stood  for  North  Derry  in  1885  but  was  heavily  defeated  because  the  Liberal  Presbyterians   in  the  Derry  seat   broke  a  pact  and  voted  for  the  Tory  and  so  the  Nationalists  did  likewise  in  the  seat  Samuel  was  contesting.

Samuel  supported  Home  Rule  and  was  made  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland  in  1892, again  without  a  seat.

When  Rosebery's  government  fell  he  was  made  a  Lord  Justice  of  Appeal  until  his  reappointment  as  Lord  Chancellor  in  1905. He  was  created  a  baronet  in  1906.

He  died  in  office  in  1911  aged  79.