1201 Godfrey Samuelson

 Constituency :  Forest  of  Dean  1887-92

Godfrey  succeeded  Thomas  Blake  who  had  resigned.It  was  a  case  of  third  time  lucky  for  Godfrey  who  had  contested  Tewkesbury  in  1885  and  Frome  in  1886.

Godfrey  was  the  son  of  Bernhard  Samuelson  , the  MP  for  Banbury. Godfrey  was  educated  at  Rugby  and  Oxford. He  became  private  secretary  to  Mundella

Godfrey  asked  a  few  questions  on  an  eclectic  range  of  matters  in  Parliament. He  stood  down  in  1892.

Godfrey  was  a  lukewarm  supporter  of  female  suffrage.

He  died  in  1941  aged  78.