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Samuel Strang Steel
Sir Samuel
Strang
Steel
,
1st
Baronet
was a
Conservative Party
politician
in
the United Kingdom
. He was elected as
Member of Parliament
for
Ashford
at the
1918 general election
, and held the seat until his defeat at the
1929 general election
by the
Liberal Party
candidate,
Rev
.
Roderick
Kedward.
He was made a
Baronet
in
July 1938
, of
Philiphaugh
,
Selkirkshire
, and from 1948 to 1958 he served as
Lord Lieutenant of Selkirkshire
.
In 1910 he
married
Vere
Mabel
,
daughter
of
Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis
. The
couple
had four sons and one daughter.