Wednesday 30 November 2016

1399 Samuel Moss




Constituency  : East   Denbighshire   1897-1906

Samuel  took  over  at  East  Denbighshire  following  the  death  of  the  veteran  Gerorge  Osborne  Morgan.

Samuel  came  from  Rossett  and  was  educated  at  Oxford. He  became  a  barrister. In  1886  he  published  The  English  Land  Laws. He  was  Assistant  Boundary  Commissioner  for  Wales  in  1887. He  was  the  second  chairman  of  Denbighshire  County Council.

In  1901  Samuel  defended  some  quarrymen  charged  with  intimidation  at  the  Bethesda  Quarry.

Samuel  resigned  his  seat  shortly  after  the  1906  election, at  which  he  was  unopposed,   to  become  a  county  court  judge.

He  died  in  1918  aged  59.

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