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The same person

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Based solely on the dates in Leigh Rayment's peerage pages, it appears that Samuel Martin the Privy Counsellor was the same person as the Pontefract MP.

http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons2.htm : Samuel Martin (died 9 Jan 1883) MP for Pontefract 1847–1851

http://www.leighrayment.com/pcouncil/pcouncil2.htm : Sir Samuel Martin (1801 – 9 Jan 1883) appointed a Privy Counsellor on 2 Feb 1874

I take the coincidence of dates of death as high odds that they were the same person, but I can't be sure. In particular, it seems odd that a former MP should be appointed a Privy Counsellor more than 20 years after leaving Parliament, unless he had held some other office, such as a colonial governorship. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:50, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved. He served as a judge from 1850 to 1873. Choess (talk) 16:36, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]