Sir Samuel Roberts, 1st Baronet PC

Privy Council of the United Kingdom

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, DL

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 (30 April 1852 – 19 June 1926) was a British

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 politician

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 and businessman.

A descendent of the Samuel Roberts who built Queen's Tower

Queen's Tower (Sheffield)

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 in Norfolk Park, Roberts grew up in the building and attended Repton School

Repton School

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, Trinity College, Cambridge

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 and then Inner Temple

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, becoming a barrister

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 in 1877.

He was also a member of the Wanderers

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 amateur football club.

Roberts also became a director of Camell Laird and of the National Provincial Bank

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. In 1900, he was the Lord Mayor of Sheffield

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. At the 1900 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1900

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 he stood unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party

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 in High Peak

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, but was elected at the Sheffield Ecclesall by-election in 1902. He was knighted in 1917 and made a Baronet

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 in 1919. Becoming a Privy Councillor in 1922 under the Conservative Government

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, he stepped down from Parliament at the 1923 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1923

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Roberts' son, also Samuel Roberts

Sir Samuel Roberts, 2nd Baronet

Sir Samuel Roberts, 2nd Baronet JP was a British politician.Son of the Sheffield Ecclesall MP Samuel Roberts, Roberts grew up at Queen's Tower in Norfolk Park, Sheffield. He attended Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge before becoming a solicitor.In 1913, Roberts became a Justice of the...

, was a later MP for Sheffield Ecclesall

Sheffield Ecclesall (UK Parliament constituency)

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