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.