Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley (10 October 1744 – 25 December 1824), known as Sampson Gideon until 1789, was the son of another Sampson Gideon

Sampson Gideon

Sampson Gideon was a Jewish-British banker in the City of London. He was a trusted "adviser of the Government," and supporter the Jew Bill of 1753. His son, educated at Eton, was created Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley....

 (1699-1762), a Jewish banker in the City of London

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 who advised the British government in the 1740s and 1750s.

He served as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Cambridgeshire

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 from 1770 to 1780, Midhurst

Midhurst (UK Parliament constituency)

Midhurst was a parliamentary borough in Sussex, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1311 until 1832, and then one member from 1832 until 1885, when the constituency was abolished...

 from 1780 to 1784, Coventry

Coventry (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1784 to 1796, and Wallingford

Wallingford (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1796 to 1802.

Sampson Gideon (as he then was) was created a baronet

Baronet

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 in 1759. In 1768, he married Maria Wilmot, the daughter of Sir John Eardley Wilmot

John Eardley Wilmot

Sir John Eardley Wilmot PC , was an English judge, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1766 to 1771.-Family and early life:...

, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas

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. On 17 July 1789 he legally changed his surname to that of Eardley. and in the same year he was created an Irish peer, with the title of Baron Eardley, of Spalding

Spalding, Lincolnshire

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 in the County of Lincoln. An Irish peerage carried no seat in the House of Lords

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 and thus did not disqualify him from membership of the British House of Commons

British House of Commons

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. In November 1789 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

As he had no sons, the peerage became extinct on Lord Eardley's death. His daughter the Honourable Charlotte Elizabeth married Sir Culling Smith, 2nd Baronet, and their son Sir Culling Smith assumed the surname of Eardley in lieu of Smith in 1847 (see Eardley Baronets

Eardley Baronets

The Smith, later Eardley Baronetcy, of Hadley in the County of Middlesex, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 22 December 1802 for Culling Smith. He was the son of Thomas Smith, a London merchant. The second Baronet married the Honourable Charlotte Elizabeth,...

). Charlotte's and Sir Culling Smith's daughter Maria Charlotte married Reverend Eardley Childers Walbanke-Childers and was the mother of politician Hugh Childers

Hugh Childers

Hugh Culling Eardley Childers was a British and Australian Liberal statesman of the nineteenth century. He is perhaps best known for his reform efforts at the Admiralty and the War Office...

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