Sir Samuel Roberts, 1st Baronet

Sir Samuel Roberts, 1st Baronet

Samuel Roberts (30 April 1852 - 19 June 1926) was a British politician and businessman.

A descendent of the Samuel Roberts who built Queen's Tower in Norfolk Park, Roberts grew up in the building and attended Repton School, Trinity College, Cambridge and then Inner Temple, becoming a barrister in 1877.

Roberts also became a director of Camell Laird and of the National Provincial Bank. In 1900, he was the Lord Mayor of Sheffield. At the 1900 UK general election he stood unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party in High Peak, but was elected at the Sheffield Ecclesall by-election, 1902. He was knighted in 1917 and made a Baronet in 1919. Becoming a Privy Councillor in 1922 under the Conservative Government, he stepped down from Parliament at the 1923 UK general election.

Roberts' son, also Samuel Roberts, was a later MP for Sheffield Ecclesall.

References

*Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees, "Who's Who of British MPs: Volume III, 1919-1945"


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