{{Short description|New Zealand politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2014}} thumb|right|Oliver Samuel {{NZ parlbox header|nolist=true|align=right}} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1884}} |end = 1887 |term = 9th |electorate = {{NZ electorate link|New Plymouth}} |party = Independent politician }} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1887}} |end = 1890 |term = 10th |electorate = New Plymouth |party = Independent politician }} {{End}} '''Oliver Samuel''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|KC}} (1849 – 11 January 1925) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from Taranaki in New Zealand.
Born in Saint Helier, Jersey in 1849, Samuel emigrated to New Zealand with his family in 1855.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Scholefield |editor-first=Guy |editor-link=Guy Scholefield |title=Dictionary of New Zealand biography |url= https://nzhistory.govt.nz/sites/default/files/documents/dnzb-1940/scholefield-dnzb-v2.pdf |access-date=12 July 2014 |year=1940 |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs |volume=2 |location=Wellington |page=273}}</ref> He was educated at Nelson College from 1863 to 1865.<ref name="NCOB register">''Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006'', 6th edition (CD-ROM).</ref> In 1883, he married Rosamond Carrington, a daughter of the surveyor Octavius Carrington who, alongside his brother Frederic Carrington, was regarded as a father of New Plymouth.<ref name="Hawera Star obit" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/search?path=%2FqueryEntry.m%3Ftype%3Dmarriages |title=Marriage search: registration number 1883/2707 |website=Births, deaths & marriages online |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref>
He represented the New Plymouth electorate from {{NZ election link year|1884}} to 1890, when he retired.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=232}}
On 22 January 1907, he was appointed to the Legislative Council. He was reappointed on 14 July 1914 and 14 July 1921. He remained a member until his death on 11 January 1925.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=163}} From 19 November 1918 until his death, he was Chairman of Committees.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=169}} On 24 December 1919, he was appointed King's Counsel.<ref>{{cite news |title=A new King's Counsel |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNCH19191224.2.81 |access-date=19 April 2021 |work=Sun |volume=VI |issue=1829 |date=24 December 1919 |page=11}}</ref>
Samuel died on 11 January 1925 at New Plymouth,<ref name="Hawera Star obit">{{cite news |title=Obituary |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HAWST19250112.2.16 |access-date=19 April 2021 |work=Hawera Star |volume=XLVIII |date=12 January 1925 |page=4}}</ref> and was buried at Te Henui Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newplymouthnz.com/Residents/Facilities-and-Services/Cemeteries-and-Crematorium/Cemetery-Search/Details?deceasedId=34602 |title=Details: Samuel, Oliver |publisher=New Plymouth District Council |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref>
==See also== * List of King's and Queen's Counsel in New Zealand
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==References== *{{Cite book |last= Wilson |first= Jim | author-link=Jim Wilson (librarian) |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103}}
{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef | before=Walter Carncross}} {{s-ttl | title=Chairman of Committees of the Legislative Council | years=1918–1925 }} {{s-aft | after = John Barr}} |- {{s-par | nz}} {{s-bef | before = Thomas Kelly }} {{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for New Plymouth | years = 1884–1890 }} {{s-aft | after = Edward Smith }} {{end}}
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