877 Samuel Williams

Constituency : Radnor  1880-84

Samuel  took  over  from  Lord  Hartington  when  the  latter  decided  he  had  to  represent  a  seat  back  in  his  native  Lancashire.*

Samuel  was  the  son  of  an  Anglican  clergyman  yet  regarded  as  one  of  the  more  advanced  Liberals  in  Wales.

Samuel  never  spoke  in  the  Commons.

Samuel  resigned  the  seat  in  1884.

He  died  in  1926  aged  83.

*  CORRECTION: Lord  Hartington  won  the  seat  in  the  1880  election and  then  chose  to  sit  for  North  East  Lancashire  and  so  Samuel  should  have  been  introduced  among  the  by-election  victors  of  1880-85  not  the  victors  of  1880.