Samuel Strang Steel
British politician (1882-1961)
Sir Samuel Barber Strang Steel of Philiphaugh, 1st Baronet, Territorial Decoration (1 August 1882 – 14 August 1961) was a landowner and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashford from 1918 to 1929.
Early life
Samuel Strang Steel was the only son of William Steel, who founded Steel Brothers & Co with his older brother James in Burma and his wife Rosetta Barber (married 25 October 1881). William and Rosetta Steel were divorced in Scotland in 1888.
Education
Samuel Strang Steel was educated at Cargilfield Preparatory School, Edinburgh and Eton College, before going on to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1900 and graduating BA (1903) and MA (1908). He was admitted to Middle Temple in 1902 and was called to the bar in 1905, but appears not to have practised as a barrister.
Family life
On 3 August 1910 he married the Hon. Vere Mabel Cornwallis (died 1964), daughter of Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis and his wife Mabel Leigh. They had five children:
Fiennes William Strang Steel, 2nd Baronet.
Jock Wykeham Strang Steel (1914-1991), married Lesley Graham, daughter of Sir John Reginald Graham of Larbert Bt, VC.
James Malcolm Strang Steel, Lieutenant Grenadier Guards,(1919-1943) killed in action WW2.
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