Samuel Waterhouse was an English Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1863 to 1880.

Waterhouse was the son of John Waterhouse of Wellhead and his wife Grace Elizabeth Rawson, daughter of John Rawson of Stony Royd, near Halifax. He was a director of the Great Northern Railway

Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)

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. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant

Deputy Lieutenant

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 for Yorkshire and a J.P.

Justice of the Peace

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 for the West Riding of Yorkshire and a major in the 2nd West Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry.

In January 1860 Waterhouse stood unsuccessfully for parliament at a by-election in Pontefract

Pontefract (UK Parliament constituency)

Pontefract was an English parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Pontefract in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons briefly in the 13th century and again from 1621 until 1885, and one member from 1885 to 1974.-In the unreformed...

. He was elected unopposed as a Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Pontefract at a by-election in August 1863 and held the seat until he stood down from the Commons at the 1880 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1880

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Waterhouse died at the age of 65.

Waterhouse married Charlotte Lydia Edwards, daughter of Henry Lees Edwards of Pye Nest in 1840. Her brother Sir Henry Edwards, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Edwards, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Edwards, 1st Baronet CB was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1847 and 1869.Edwards was the son of Henry Lees Edwards and Lea Priestley. He was J.P...

 was MP for Beverley

Beverley (UK Parliament constituency)

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