| 词条 | Samuel Salt |
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Samuel Salt (died 1792) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1790. He is also known for his connection to the family of author Charles Lamb. Early lifeSalt was the son of John Salt, vicar of Audley, Staffordshire. He was admitted at the Middle Temple in 1741, at the Inner Temple in 1745, and was called to the bar in 1753. He was a Director of the South Sea Company from 1769 to 1775 and was deputy Governor from 1775 until his death.[1] Political careerSalt was a lawyer for the Eliot family of Port Eliot. On the interest of the Eliot family Salt was returned to parliament at the 1768 general election for their pocket-boroughs of {{constlk|St Germans}} and {{constlk|Liskeard}}. He chose to sit for Liskeard and was returned there again in 1774 and 1780.[1] In politics he was a Whig.[2] Salt was expected to stand again at Liskeard in the 1784 general election but instead he stood for {{constlk|Aldeburgh}} in Suffolk on the interest of Philip Champion Crespigny. Crespigny's brother was also a Director of the South Sea Company. Salt did not stand in 1790 Lamb familyJohn Lamb, father of Charles Lamb, was Salt's clerk for nearly 40 years. Charles was born in Crown Office Row, where Salt owned chambers, and it was the home of the Lamb family until 1792. Salt procured the admission of Charles to Christ's Hospital. Through Salt's s influence as a governor of the South Sea Company, Charles and his elder brother obtained clerkships under the company.[2] Later yearsSalt became bencher at the Inner Temple in 1782, reader in 1787 and treasurer in 1788. He died at his chambers in Crown Office Row, Inner Temple, on 27 July 1792, and was buried in a vault of the Temple Church. A shield with his coat-of-arms was placed in the sixteenth panel (counting from the west) on the north side of the Inner Temple hall.[2] He was unmarried.[1] Notes1. ^1 2 historyofparliamentonline.org, Salt, Samuel (c.1723-92), of the Inner Temple. Attribution{{DNB|wstitle=Salt, Samuel|volume=50}}{{s-start}}{{s-par|gb}}{{s-bef2. ^1 2 {{cite DNB|wstitle=Salt, Samuel|volume=50}} | before = Edward Eliot | before2 = William Hussey }}{{s-title | title = Member of Parliament for St Germans | years = 1768 | with = Edward Eliot }}{{s-aft | after = Benjamin Langlois | after2 = George Jennings }}{{s-bef | before = Anthony Champion | before2 = Philip Stephens }}{{s-title | title = Member of Parliament for Liskeard | years = 1768–1784 | with = Edward Eliot 1768–74 | with2 = Edward Gibbon 1774–80 | with3 = Hon. Wilbraham Tollemache 1780–84 }}{{s-aft | after = Edward James Eliot | after2 = John Eliot }}{{s-bef | before = Martyn Fonnereau | before2 = Philip Champion Crespigny }}{{s-title | title = Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh | years = 1784–1790 | with = Philip Champion Crespigny }}{{s-aft | after = Lord Grey of Groby | after2 = Thomas Grenville }}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Salt, Samuel}} 10 : Year of birth missing|1792 deaths|English barristers|Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Cornwall|People from Audley, Staffordshire|British MPs 1768–74|British MPs 1774–80|British MPs 1780–84|Members of the Middle Temple|Members of the Inner Temple |
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