Samuel Tufnell

Samuel Tufnell (15 September 1682 – 1758), of Langleys, Essex, was a British lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1715 and 1747.

[4] Tufnell stood with Sir William Jolliffe as a Whig candidate for Maldon at the 1715 British general election, and was returned as Member of Parliament on petition on 20 May 1715.

When there was a split in the Whig party he was given a temporary place as commissioner of the equivalent on 24 July 1717 which lapsed on 18 April 1719, after which he spoke against the Peerage Bill.

[4] After spending time out of Parliament, Tufnell successfully contested Colchester at the 1727 British general election as a Walpole Whig.

He did not stand at the 1734 British general election and after the negotiations opened at Antwerp in 1737, he remained there and made occasional visits to England.