Samuel Smith (Liberal politician)

He was noted for being a champion of "social purity" and opposed many plays with open displays of sexuality that he saw as "glorification of the vulgarest debauchery".

The former (d. 1816) wrote 'A General View of the Agriculture of Galloway' (1806); the latter seceded at the disruption of the Scottish church in 1843.

By 1864 he was head of the Liverpool branch of James Finlay & Co., a large cotton business of Glasgow and Bombay.

[2] Smith was first elected to Parliament on 11 December 1882 in a by-election in Liverpool, following the Conservative MP Viscount Sandon's succession to the Peerage as Earl of Harrowby on 19 November 1882.

Edge Hill University has a hall of residence called Smith in honour of his contribution to the institution.

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Samuel Smith pillar inscription at Sefton Park, Liverpool.
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Smith as caricatured by Spy ( Leslie Ward ) in Vanity Fair , August 1904