Samuel Stephens (c. 1768 – 25 February 1834)[1] was a politician in Cornwall. He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in two periods between 1806 and 1820.

He served as High Sheriff of Cornwall for 1805 and then at the 1806 general election was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for St Ives,[2] where he was re-elected in 1807[3] and held the seat until the 1812 general election, when he did not contest St Ives.[4]

He was re-elected for St Ives at the 1818 general election,[5] and held the seat until the next election, in 1820.[1][4]

He was the son of a previous MP for St Ives, Samuel Stephens.

On 29 November 1796 he married Betty Wallis, the daughter of Samuel Wallis and daughter of John Hearle of Penryn.

They had five children:

  1. Samuel Wallis, his heir.
  2. John Augustus.
  3. Francis Hearle, a cavalry officer.
  4. Henry Lewis, of Oriel College, Oxford, to whom he left Tregenna Castle.[6]
  5. Ferdinand Thomas.
  6. Sarah-Maria (5 October 1800 – 16 June 1878). She married (6 March 1827) the Reverend Charles William Davy.

References

  1. 1 2 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)
  2. ↑ "No. 15976". The London Gazette. 18 November 1806. p. 1506.
  3. ↑ "No. 16040". The London Gazette. 20 June 1807. p. 834.
  4. 1 2 Stooks Smith, Henry (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 48. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
  5. ↑ "No. 17384". The London Gazette. 1 August 1818. p. 1377.
  6. ↑ Harris, Janet (April–May 2020). "St Ives Archive: The grand hotel on the hill". St Ives Local. No. 30. Retrieved 20 August 2020.


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