707 Samuel Marling

Constituency :Gloucestershire  West 1868-74, Stroud  1875-80

Samuel  took  the  second  seat  at  West  Gloucestershire  from  the  Tories.

Samuel  was  a  cloth  manufacturer  with  a  country  estate nearby  and  a  noted  philanthropist. He  founded  a  school  and  church  in  the  village  of  Selsey . He  later  made  a  substantial  contribution  to  the  founding  of  Marling  School  in  Stroud.

Samuel  was  created  a  baronet  in  1882.

He  died  in  1883  aged  73.