Samuel Sugden (merchant)

Samuel Sugden (16 April 1798 – 12 October 1896) was an English merchant from Leeds who built Oak Lodge in north London, after which the district of Oakwood is named.

[2] They had daughters, Elizabeth, Emily, Emma, Annie, Clara, and Florence, and sons Charles, Henry, Albert and Edwin.

[5] His wife Emma died in 1874 and is remembered in a 3-light window in the Lady Chapel at St Pauls Church, Winchmore Hill.

[10] The firm had run for the previous ten years as Sugden Borras & co.[11] At the time of the 1871 census he was described as a "Merchant of Feathers at Aldermanbury".

[13] Using the services of local builder John Wilkinson, whose office was near the Cherry Tree pub in Southgate, he rebuilt the house into a much more substantial residence known as Oak Lodge with a walled garden, orchard, ice well, and a collection of outbuildings.

[14] He made his own gas in an outbuilding at the lodge[6] and a gasometer is shown on contemporary Ordnance Survey maps.