Sir Samuel Roberts, 2nd Baronet explained

Samuel Roberts
Office1:Member of Parliament
for Sheffield Ecclesall
Term Start1:30 May 1929
Term End1:25 October 1935
Predecessor1:Charles Pulley
Successor1:Frank Owen
Office2:Member of Parliament
for Hereford
Term Start2:11 January 1921
Term End2:10 May 1929
Predecessor2:Albert Harland
Successor2:Geoffrey Ellis
Birth Name:Samuel Roberts
Alma Mater:Harrow School
Trinity College

Sir Samuel Roberts, 2nd Baronet JP (2 September 1882 – 13 December 1955) 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 Peace, and in 1919, the Lord Mayor of Sheffield. In 1921, he was elected as the Conservative Party MP for Hereford, and at the 1929 general election he switched to represent his father's former constituency of Sheffield Ecclesall. He stood down at the 1935 general election, serving that year as the Master Cutler.

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