Sir Sampson Darrell (1594 – 14 May 1635) was an English politician and Naval administrator who sat in the

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from 1625 to 1626. He was

Surveyor of Marine Victuals The Surveyor of Marine Victuals later known as the General-Surveyor of Victuals was a civilian officer in the Royal Navy who was a former member of the Navy Board from 1550 until 1679, he was responsible for managing the supply of food, beverage ...

of the Royal Navy from 1623 to 1635.

Biography

Darrell was the son of Sir

Marmaduke Darrell Marmaduke Darrell or Darrel or Dayrell (died 1632) was an English courtier, accountant, and naval administrator. Darrell's estates were at Fulmer in Buckinghamshire. He was a Clerk of the Avery to Elizabeth I. Darrell kept an account of the ex ...

of Fulmer, Buckinghamshire. He matriculated at

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on 8 May 1607, aged 13 and was awarded BA on 31 January 1610. He was a student of

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in 1610. He was knighted on 13 June 1619. In 1625, he was elected

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for

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. He was re-elected MP for Wendover in 1626. He held the post of victualler of the King's ships also known as

. 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Dabbe-Dirkin', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 (1891), pp. 366–405. Date accessed: 8 May 2012
/ref> a post his father also held from 1595 to 1623. Darrell died in London at the age of about 39.

References

Sources

* Surveyor of Marine Victuals 1550-c. 1679. A provisional list compiled by J.C. Sainty, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, January 2003. British History Online http://www.history.ac.uk/publications/office/navymarine ccessed 26 March 2017

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Darrell, Sampson 1594 births 1635 deaths English MPs 1625 English MPs 1626 17th-century Royal Navy personnel Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford Members of Gray's Inn