Sir Thomas Samwell, 2nd Baronet Samwell (14 April 1687 – 16 November 1757), was a British politician who sat in the

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from 1715 to 1722. Samwell was the only son of

Sir Thomas Samwell, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Samwell, 1st Baronet (c. 1654 – 23 February 1694) was a Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire from 1689 to 1690 and for Northampton from 1690 to 1694. His great-grandfather was Sir William Samwell (1559–1628), Auditor of the Exc ...

of Upton, Northamptonshire and his wife Anne Godschalk, daughter of Sir John Godschalk of Atherstone-on-Stour. He succeeded his father in the estates and

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in 1694. He was admitted at

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in 1704, and then undertook a

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through the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and France. Samwell was elected Whig

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for

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at the

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together with his cousin Sir Adolphus Oughton, 1st Baronet. He did not stand in

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. Samwell married twice: firstly to Millicent Fuller, daughter and heiress of Rev. Thomas Fuller on 22 March 1710, and secondly to Mary Ives, the widow of William Ives and daughter of Sir Gilbert Clarke of Chilcote, Derbyshire on 26 January 1721. He had two sons and four daughters with his first wife, and a son and daughter with his second. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son

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1687 births 1757 deaths Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Samwell, Sir Thomas, 2nd Baronet Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1715–1722 People from Upton, Northamptonshire Members of Parliament for Coventry {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub