Samuel Marling

Sir Samuel Stephens Marling, 1st Baronet (10 April 1810 – 22 October 1883), was a British cloth manufacturer and Liberal Party politician. He was particularly associated with the village of Selsley, Gloucestershire.

Marling in 1850 purchased what became for a century the Marling family estate at Stanley Park, Selsley. [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15758 Tidenham including Lancaut - Manors and other estates | British History Online ] ] . His descendants lived there until the estate was broken up in the early 1950s. The house is now converted into flats. As well as a being a successful businessman Marling was a noted philanthropist. In 1865 he established Selsley Church of England School [ [http://www.grahamthomas.com/history0.html Cotswolds: Woodchester and Selsley History, two of the most beautiful and interesting villages in the Cotswolds ] ] , in 1862 he commissioned All Saints, the village church for Selsley [ [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/kingsstanley/page5.htm King ] ] which is located adjacent to Stanley Park, and later he was one of those responsible for the founding of Marling School, Stroud, in 1887, contributing £10,000 to the cause [ [http://www.marling.gloucs.sch.uk/prospectweb/school.htm The History of Marling School ] ] . , He was also involved in politics and sat as Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire West from 1868 to 1874 and for Stroud from 1875 to 1880. In 1882 he was created a Baronet, of Stanley Park and Sedbury Park in the County of Gloucester. He died in the next year, aged 73, and was succeeded by his son Sir William Henry Marling.

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