Sir Samuel Roberts, 2nd Baronet
JP (2 September 1882 – 13 December 1955) was a
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politician
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.
Son of the
Sheffield Ecclesall MP
Samuel Roberts, Roberts grew up at
Queen's Tower Queen's Tower can refer to:
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in
Norfolk Park
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,
Sheffield
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. He attended
Harrow School and
Trinity College, Cambridge
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before becoming a
solicitor.
In 1913, Roberts became a
Justice of the Peace, and in 1919, the
Lord Mayor of Sheffield
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. In 1921, he was elected as the
Conservative Party MP for
Hereford, and at the
1929 general election he switched to represent his father's former constituency of Sheffield Ecclesall. He stood down at the
1935 general election, serving that year as the
Master Cutler
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.
References
*Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees, ''Who's Who of British MPs: Volume III, 1919-1945''
External links
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1882 births
1955 deaths
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Lord Mayors of Sheffield
People educated at Harrow School
UK MPs 1918–1922
UK MPs 1922–1923
UK MPs 1923–1924
UK MPs 1924–1929
UK MPs 1929–1931
UK MPs 1931–1935
Master Cutlers
Politicians from Sheffield
20th-century English businesspeople