Samuel Bond (died 1673) was an English academic, lawyer and politician who sat in the

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in 1659. Bond was the son of Denis Bond of Dorset who was a Parliamentarian MP and his second wife Lucy Lawrence. He matriculated from

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at Michaelmas 1639 and was awarded BA in 1642. He was admitted at

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in 1642. In 1646 he was awarded MA at Cambridge and became a Fellow of

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until 1649. He was called to the bar in 1648. In 1659, Bond was elected Member of Parliament for

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in the

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. He was elected MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in 1660 for the Convention Parliament but was involved in a double return and his election was declared void on 5 May 1660. He became

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of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. Bond died in 1673 and was buried at Dorchester on 31 May. He was the brother of Nathaniel Bond and half-brother of John Bond.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bond, Samuel Year of birth missing 1673 deaths Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Members of the Inner Temple Fellows of Trinity Hall, Cambridge 17th-century English lawyers English MPs 1659 Members of the Parliament of England for Poole