About Samuel Duckworth
Lived 1786 – 1847 (aged 60–61). Samuel Duckworth was a British politician.
Samuel Duckworth (1786 – 3 December 1847) was a British barrister and politician.
Born in Manchester, Duckworth studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, then followed his father in becoming a solicitor and barrister, practising at the Chancery Bar. At the 1837 UK general election, he stood in Leicester and won a seat as a Radical Whig. In February 1839, he was appointed as Master in Chancery, and so left Parliament.
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Who was Samuel Duckworth?
politician, died 1847
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Samuel Duckworth was born in 1786.
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Samuel Duckworth died in 1847.
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Samuel Duckworth was a politician.
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Samuel Duckworth was British.
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