Samuel Storey, Baron Buckton (18 January 1896 – 17 January 1978), known as Sir Samuel Storey, 1st Baronet, from 1960 to 1966, was a British

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 Conservative

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 politician.

Storey was the son of Frederick George Storey and his wife Mary Dagmar née Hutton, and was educated at Haileybury

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

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. After graduation, he became a barrister in the Inner Temple

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 in 1919 and joined Sunderland Borough Council in 1928. He was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for the Sunderland constituency

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 at the 1931 general election

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 (a post his namesake grandfather

Samuel Storey

Samuel Storey was a British politician born in County Durham. He became a Member of Parliament for Sunderland and the main founder of the Sunderland Echo newspaper.-Early life:...

 had held from 1881 to 1895 and briefly in 1910), and held the seat in the House of Commons until his defeat at the 1945 general election

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. He joined the East Riding of Yorkshire

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 County Council in 1946.

Storey returned to Parliament

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 at the 1950 general election

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, when he was elected MP for Stretford

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 and during his tenure was Chairman of the Standing Committee

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s and Temporary Chairman of the Committees of the House of Commons

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 in 1957 and Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means

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 from 1965–66.

He was created a baronet

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 in February 1960 and after his until his defeat at the 1966 general election

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, after which he was given a life peerage as Baron Buckton, of Settrington in the East Riding of the County of York

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.

Lord Buckton died in January 1978, aged 81. The life barony became extinct on his death while he was succeeded in the hereditary baronetcy by his son Richard.

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