Samuel Bostock (1868 - 1938)

Family Tree: Bostock - Part 21
Son of: Samuel Bostock (1809) and Marion (1830) FBT
Born: 8/8/1868 at Walton on the Heath, Surrey T Aug1868
Baptised: 13/9/1868 at Walton on the Heath, Surrey PR
Died: 9/5/1938, as the result of an accident, at Winchester, Hants SH, JKCB
Will: Will proved 6/7/1938 in London SH
Married: Kate (1872) FBT
Children: Samuel Charles (1894) , George Hewitt (1895) , John (1898) , Samuel Stewart (1900) , Robert (1902) , David Cecil (1908) Various

1871 Census, Walton, surrey, aged 2.
833.98
1881 Census, Brighton, Sussex, aged 12. 1079.23
1901 Census, Lainston, Hants, aged 32, barrister at law. 1084.18
1911 Census, Winchester, Hants, aged 42, barrister. 1084.18
1921 Census, Winchester, Hants, age 52y 10m, J.P. and farmer. 5741.101

Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Barrister.
FBT

Educated at Haileybury School.
Graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge; BA in 1889.
Called to the bar in 1890, but never practised.
Secretary to the CULTC.
Represented Cambridge at tennis against Oxford in both singles and doubles.
HailS

Admitted to the Inner Temple in 1887.
Lord of the manor of Sparsholt, Winchester, Hants.
JP of Hants from 1906.
CAMU, BLG 37, Who 38
T 11/5/1938

Lived at Lainston and Sparsholt Manor, Winchester, Hants.
C.John

The following is from an obituary in the Times:
He donated the Bostock cup for tennis at Cambridge.
Called to the bar in 1890, but never practised.

Before the war he was already interesting himself in the many problems of agriculture and rural life generally, and during the war he was chairman of the Agricultural Organization Society in London, and was also a member of the Old Army and Navy Canteen Board.

He was also one of the first promoters of the Women's Institute movement, and a founder of the Guild of Hampshire Craftsmen. He was a keen churchman.

T 16/5/1938