Samuel Gorley Putt OBE FRSL (9 June 1913 – 24 April 1995), was a British academic, author and stood as a Liberal Party candidate, but failed to win a seat, at the 1945 General Election.
He was educated at Torquay Grammar School and in 1930 won a scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he received a First Class Honours in both parts of the English tripos in 1933.
[2] He worked as a freelance literary reviewer, spent a year lecturing in English at the University College of the South West of England in Exeter, and then briefly served as warden of a hostel and secretary of the appointments committee at Queen's University Belfast (1938–39).
After the war, he went back to University College, Exeter, as the warden of Crossmead Hall, tutor to overseas students as well as the director of the International Summer School (1946–49).
[2] He was Liberal candidate for his home constituency, the Torquay Division of Devon at the 1945 General Election.