Samuel Marling

Sir Samuel Stephens Marling, 1st Baronet (10 April 1810 – 22 October 1883) was a British cloth manufacturer and Liberal Party politician.

In 1851, Marling purchased a 30 feet tall granite column at the Great Exhibition and had it transported to his estate where it was erected in the grounds.

In 1865 he established Selsley Church of England School,[2] in 1862 he commissioned All Saints, the village church for Selsley[3] which is located adjacent to Stanley Park, and later he was one of those responsible for the founding of Marling School, Stroud, in 1887, which was named after him due to the fact that he contributed £10,000 to the cause.

He died the next year, aged 73, and was succeeded by his son Sir William Henry Marling.

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