Samuel Sugden (merchant)
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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.
Early life and family
Samuel Sugden was born on 16 April 1798 in Leeds, Yorkshire. At the time of his birth, his father, Samuel Sugden (the elder) was living on Park Lane, Leeds. In 1819 Samuel (the younger) married Elizabeth Morse and they had seven children. Only three survived. Elizabeth Morse died in 1843. In 1848, Samuel married Emma Elizabeth Linsell (died 1874) at the Weld Chapel, Southgate. They had daughters, Elizabeth, Emily, Emma, Annie, Clara, and Florence, and sons Charles, Henry, Albert and Edwin. In 1851 the family lived at Oakfield Villa in Crouch End. From at least as early as 1855, they were at Oak Lodge, Southgate, where they lived until Samuel's death.
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