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Godfrey Blundell Samuelson (3 June 1863 – 3 November 1941) was a British Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1887 to 1892. Samuelson unsuccessfully contested the 1885 general election in the
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. He was unsuccessful again at the 1886 general election in the Frome division of
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, where he was defeated by the Conservative candidate in what had been a Liberal-held seat. He entered
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the following year, when he was elected at by-election in July 1887 as the
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(MP) for the
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, following the resignation of the Liberal MP Thomas Blake. Samuelson did not stand again at the next general election, in 1892.


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* 1863 births 1941 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1886–1892 {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub