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'''Sir Harry Simon Samuel''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|PC}} (3 August 1853 – 26 April 1934) was an English [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)|Limehouse]] and then [[Norwood (UK Parliament constituency)|Norwood]] in [[London]]. He was an advocate of protection in trade and he campaigned against free trade during his political career.<ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir Harry Samuel – Strong Advocate Of Protection |work=[[The Times]] |date= 27 April 1934|page= 16 }}</ref>
==Biography==
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Samuel retired from business to enter politics with the Unionist party and, in 1889, he became a prospective candidate in [[St Pancras East (UK Parliament constituency)|St Pancras East]]. So as not to split the Conservative vote in 1892 Samuel stood in the [[1892 United Kingdom general election|1892]] election for the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] in the [[Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)|Limehouse]] constituency but the seat was won by the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] [[John Stewart Wallace]] with a majority of 270.<ref name="times"/>
In the [[1895 United Kingdom general election|1895]], he stood again and was elected as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)|Limehouse]] with a majority of 590. During the election campaign he was the subject of [[Antisemitism|Antisemitic]] comments from his [[Liberal-Labour (UK)|Liberal-Labour]] opponent William Marcus Thompson.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hirshfield|first=Claire|date=1981|title="Reynolds's Newspaper" and the Modern Jew|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20081959|journal=Victorian Periodicals Review|volume=14|issue=1|pages=3–11|jstor=20081959|issn=0709-4698}}</ref> He was re-elected in 1900 with a majority of 538 but lost the seat in 1906 to Liberal [[William Pearce (Liberal politician)|William Pearce]]. In 1903, he had been appointed a [[Knight Bachelor]].<ref name="times"/><ref name="sir" />
In January 1910, he was elected back to parliament with a 1778 majority in the [[Norwood (UK Parliament constituency)|Norwood]] constituency, a seat he then held until he retired as an MP at the [[1922 United Kingdom general election|1922 election]]. He was appointed a member of the Privy Council in 1916.<ref name="times"/> He was also a [[Freeman of the City of London]] and a member of the [[Worshipful Company of Coopers|Cooper's Company]].<ref name="je" />
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| title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)|Limehouse]]
| years = [[1895 United Kingdom general election|1895]]–[[1906 United Kingdom general election|1906]]
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| title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Norwood (UK Parliament constituency)|Norwood]]
| years = [[January 1910 United Kingdom general election|1910]] – [[1922 United Kingdom general election|1922]]
| before = [[George Bowles (Conservative politician)|George Bowles]]
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