Samuel Storey, Baron Buckton (18 January 1896 – 17 January 1978), known as Sir Samuel Storey, 1st Baronet, from 1960 to 1966, was a British
Conservative
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politician.
Storey was the son of Frederick George Storey and his wife Mary Dagmar ''née'' Hutton, and was educated at
Haileybury and
Trinity College, Cambridge
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. After graduation, he became a barrister in the
Inner Temple
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in 1919 and joined
Sunderland
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Borough Council in 1928. He was elected as
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for the
Sunderland constituency at the
1931 general election
Events
January
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(a post his
namesake grandfather had held from 1881 to 1895 and briefly in 1910), and held the seat in the
House of Commons
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until his defeat at the
1945 general election
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Africa
* 1945 South-West African legislative election
Asia
* 1945 Indian general election
Australia
* 1945 Fremantle by-election
Europe
* 1945 Albanian parliamentary election
* 1945 Bulgarian ...
. He joined the
East Riding of Yorkshire
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County Council in 1946.
Storey returned to
Parliament
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at the
1950 general election, when he was elected MP for
Stretford
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and during his tenure was Chairman of the
Standing Committee
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s and Temporary Chairman of the Committees of the
House of Commons
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in 1957 and Chairman of the
Committee of Ways and Means from 1965–66.
He was created a
baronet
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in February 1960 and, after his defeat at the
1966 general election, he was given a
life peerage
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as Baron Buckton, of Settrington in the East Riding of the
County of York
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.
Lord Buckton died in January 1978, aged 81. The life barony became extinct on his death while he was succeeded in the hereditary baronetcy by his son,
Richard
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.
Arms
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