William Sampson Cluse (20 December 1875 – 8 September 1955) was a British Labour Party politician.
[1][2] Born in Islington, he was orphaned at the age of five, by the time he was eleven Cluse was working part-time.
Following the war he entered local government when he was elected to Islington Borough Council as a Labour Party councillor representing Tollington ward in 1919.
[2] On 17 December 1942, Anthony Eden, the foreign secretary, gave the first formal news of the Holocaust to the House of Commons.
Cluse, an infrequent speaker, suggested that members "rise in their places" to observe a minute of silent protest.