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Brigadier-General Samuel Masham, 1st Baron Masham (1678/79 – 1758), was a British courtier in the court of Queen Anne, and the husband of her favourite, Abigail, Lady Masham.
It was first created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1712 when the courtier Samuel Masham was made Baron Masham, of Otes. In 1723 he also succeeded as fourth Baronet of High Lever. The barony became extinct on the death of the second Baron in 1776.
Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham was an English inventor whose contributions included a wool-combing machine that helped to lower the price of clothing and a silk-combing machine that utilized silk waste.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
29 de ago. de 2020 · Samuel Masham, 1st Baron Masham of Otes was born in 1678. He was the son of Sir Francis Masham, 3rd Bt. and Mary Scott. 2 He married Abigail Hill, daughter of Francis Hill and Elizabeth Jennings, in 1707. He died on 16 October 1758. 2.
Masham attended the House for the first day of the April 1713 session, after which he was present on 70 per cent of sittings. During the session he played a significant role in assisting Oxford in his management of both Houses of Parliament.
Biography. Masham was described by Sarah Churchill as a ‘good natured, soft, insignificant man, making low bows to everybody, and being ready to run to open a door’.
Samuel Lister, 1st Baron Masham with a model of one of his inventions, 1901 portrait by John Collier. Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham (1 January 1815 – 2 February 1906), was an English inventor and industrialist, notable for inventing the Lister nip comb.
