Samuel Shore (1738–1828) was an English ironmaster, banker and activist of the

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Life

The son of Samuel Shore the elder (1707–1785) "of Meersbrook", and his wife Margaret Diggles, a Liverpool heiress, he was educated by Daniel Lowe of

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, a nonconformist minister who ran a

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, and became a member of Sheffield's

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After travel and study abroad that was cut short in 1757 by the

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, Shore married in 1759, and later came into possession of

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through his wife, Urith Offley. He served as

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in 1761. Shore was active as an ironmaster. He was also involved in the River Don navigation scheme; and the Sheffield Town Trust.

The elder Samuel Shore bought

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in the 1770s from Benjamin Roebuck, after a bank failure. He died there on 23 September 1785. The younger Samuel Shore moved there, on his second marriage in 1788. Shore was brought into political work on a national stage by

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. In 1791 he supported

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in founding the Sheffield Constitutional Society. In 1819 Shore chaired a large public meeting in Sheffield, to ask the Prince Regent to have an inquiry made into the

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. In 1820 his name was put forward for at the general election: but Shore was by then confined to his bed. The proposal was mischief made by Peter Crompton.

Family

Shore married: #Urith Offley, daughter of Joseph Offley, who died in 1781; #Lydia Flower, daughter of Freeman Flower, in 1788. There were three sons of the first marriage,

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and Bohun. Shore's sister Hannah married Thomas Walker; his brother William married Mary Evans (daughter of George Evans and Anna Nightingale) and was father of William Edward Shore—and so grandfather of

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. Shore and Lydia adopted Lydia Humble, daughter of Flower Humble (a relation of Lydia Flower); she married

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shore, Samuel 1738 births 1828 deaths English businesspeople English bankers English Dissenters People from Norton Lees