587 Samuel Carter

Constituency : Coventry  1868

Samuel  had  a  very  brief  stint  as  MP  for  Coventry  after  Henry  Jackson's  by-election  victory  was  voided. Some  sources  confuse  him  with  a  Radical  MP of   the  same  name  for  Tavistock  in  the  1850s.

Samuel  was  a  Coventry  solicitor  who  mainly  worked  for  two  railway  companies, the  Midland
 the  London  and  North  Western. He  was  a  Unitarian. He  helped  fund  a  library  in  Coventry.

In  Parliament  he  got  to speak  on  disestablishment  of  the  Irish  church  and  the  carrier  acts.

Samuel  was  defeated  in  1868  and  1874.

He  died  in  1878  aged  72.