Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley
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Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley FRS (10 October 1744 – 25 December 1824), known as Sir Sampson Gideon from 1759 until 1789,[1] was the son of another Sampson Gideon (1699–1762), a Jewish banker in the City of London who advised the British government in the 1740s and 1750s, and his wife Jane (died 1778), daughter of Charles Ermell of London.[2]
The younger Sampson Gideon (as he then was) was educated at Tonbridge School and Eton College. He was created a baronet, on 21 May 1759, under his father's influence though aged only 13 years.[3] His father had lobbied for the same honour for himself from the prime minister, the Duke of Newcastle, but was denied it on account of his own religion, as he remained a practising Jew. The younger Sampson Gideon and his two sisters, on the contrary, whose mother was Christian, were baptised and brought up in the Church of England.[2]
He served as Tory[3] Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire from 1770 to 1780, Midhurst from 1780 to 1784, Coventry from 1784 to 1796, and Wallingford from 1796 to 1802.
In 1768, he married Maria Wilmot, the daughter of Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.[1] On 17 July 1789 he legally changed his surname to that of Eardley.[1] and in the same year he was created an Irish peer, with the title of Baron Eardley, of Spalding in the County of Lincoln. An Irish peerage carried no seat in the House of Lords and thus did not disqualify him from membership of the British House of Commons. In November 1789 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)[4] and he was also Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA).[3]
Lord Eardley was the first Provincial Grand Master of Cambridgeshire Freemasons, appointed in 1796, until his death.[5]
His two sons predeceased him, and the peerage became extinct on Lord Eardley's death, at 10 Marina Parade, Brighton,[6] on Christmas Day, 1824, aged 80. He was buried at Erith, Kent.[6] 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). Charlotte's and Sir Culling Smith's daughter Maria Charlotte married Reverend Eardley Childers Walbanke-Childers and was the mother of politician Hugh Childers.
Notes
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.Article on Sampson Gideon (1699-1762) by Edgar Samuel.
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References
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source][better source needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs [self-published source][better source needed]
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire 1770–1780 With: Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt |
Succeeded by Viscount Royston Lord Robert Manners |
Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Midhurst 1780–1784 With: Hon. Henry Drummond |
Succeeded by Hon. Henry Drummond Benjamin Lethieullier |
Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Coventry 1784–1796 With: John Eardley Wilmot |
Succeeded by Nathaniel Jefferys William Wilberforce Bird |
Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Wallingford 1796–1800 With: Sir Francis Sykes, Bt |
Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom |
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Member of Parliament for Wallingford 1801–1802 With: Sir Francis Sykes, Bt |
Succeeded by Sir Francis Sykes, Bt William Hughes |
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