Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 2nd Baron Masham (1857-24 January 1917) was an

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baron and industrialist. He was born in 1857, the son of

Samuel Lister, 1st Baron Masham Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham (1 January 1815 – 2 February 1906), was an English inventor and industrialist, notable for inventing the Lister nip comb. Early life He was born in Calverley Hall (now Calverley House Farm- not to be ...

, and was educated at Harrow and St John's College, Oxford. Like his father, who he succeeded to the peerage in 1906, he was a prominent

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industrialist. He never married, and on his death, his title was inherited by his younger brother, John Cunliffe Lister, 3rd Baron Masham.

References

*Obituary: p. 156, ''The Annual Register: a review of public events at home and abroad, for the year 1917''. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1918. {{DEFAULTSORT:Masham, 2nd Baron Lister, Samuel Cunliffe 1857 births 1917 deaths Businesspeople from Yorkshire Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom People educated at Harrow School 19th-century English businesspeople