Sir Samuel Roberts, 1st Baronet

For other people named Samuel Roberts, see Samuel Roberts (disambiguation).

Sir Samuel Roberts, 1st Baronet PC, DL (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.[1]

He was also a member of the Wanderers amateur football club.[2]

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 general election he stood unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party in High Peak, but was elected at the Sheffield Ecclesall by-election in 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 general election.

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

References

  1. ^ Roberts, Samuel in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
  2. ^ Cavallini, Rob (2005). The Wanderers F.C. –"Five times F.A. Cup winners". Dog N Duck Publications. p. 111. ISBN 0-9550-4960-1. 

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett		 Member of Parliament for Sheffield Ecclesall
1902 – 1923		 Succeeded by
Albert Harland
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
 (of Ecclesall and Queen's Tower)
1919–1926		 Succeeded by
Samuel Roberts