Sunday, 12 August 2018
1995 Samuel Pattinson
Constituency : Horncastle 1922-24
Samuel took Horncastle from the Tories for the Asquithians. It was a straight contest. He praised Bonar Law during his campaign.
Samuel was the brother of Robert Pattinson, elected at the same time for Grantham. He was educated at Abingdon House and Carre's Grammart School. He worked in his father-in-law's drapery business as well as the family's building firm. He was a county councillor for Kesteven and then Lincolnshire. He contested Horncastle in 1918 when he lost to a couponed Conservative and then in a by-election in 1920 when Labour's intervention cost him victory.
Samuel held the seat in 1923 but was defeated in 1924. He later joined the Conervatives.
He died n 1942 aged 72.
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