Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 2nd Baron Masham
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and industrialist.
He was born in 1857, the son of Samuel Lister, 1st Baron Masham
Samuel Lister, 1st Baron Masham
Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham, was an English inventor and industrialist, notable for inventing the Lister nip comb.-Early life:...
, and was educated at Harrow
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and St. John's College, Oxford. Like his father, who he succeeded to the peerage in 1906, he was a prominent Yorkshire
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industrialist.
He never married, and on his death the title was inherited by his younger brother, John Cunliffe Lister, 3rd Baron Masham.