Samuel Charles Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip (24 March 1842 – 12 July 1897), was a British businessman and
Conservative
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politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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between 1873 and 1887 when he inherited the
peerage
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.
Life and career
Allsopp was the eldest son of
Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip, head of the brewery firm of
Samuel Allsopp & Sons
Samuel Allsopp & Sons was one of the largest breweries operating in Burton upon Trent, England. It was revived as Allsopp's in the 2020s. History Origins
Allsopp's origins go back to the 1740s, when Benjamin Wilson, an innkeeper-brewer of Burto ...
, of
Burton-on-Trent
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, and his wife Elizabeth Tongue. He was educated at
Harrow School
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and
Trinity College, Cambridge
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, and was a lieutenant in the Derbyshire Yeomanry. In 1880, he took over the running of the brewery. He was also deputy chairman of the
Great Northern Railway.
In 1873, Allsopp was elected
Member of Parliament for
Staffordshire East and held the seat until 1880. He became a
deputy lieutenant of
Staffordshire
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in 1876. He was elected MP for
Taunton
Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England. It is a market town and has a Minster (church), minster church. Its population in 2011 was 64,621. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century priory, monastic foundation, owned by the ...
in 1882. In 1887 he succeeded his father as second
Baron Hindlip and gave up his seat when he entered the
House of Lords
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.
Lord Hindlip died in July 1897, aged 55.
Family
Hindlip married Georgiana Millicent, daughter of Charles Rowland Palmer-Moorewood, in 1868. He was succeeded in his titles by his son
Charles
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. Lady Hindlip died in 1939. His brother
George was MP for Worcester, while other brothers
Frederic and
Herbert were first-class
cricket
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ers.
Coat of arms
See also
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Beerage
References
External links
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1842 births
1897 deaths
People educated at Harrow School
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Samuel
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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1868–1874
UK MPs 1874–1880
UK MPs 1880–1885
UK MPs 1885–1886
UK MPs 1886–1892
UK MPs who inherited peerages
Deputy lieutenants of Staffordshire
19th-century English businesspeople