Samuel Thorp, or Thorpe, (c. 1765 – 1838) was a clockmaker born in Madeley, Shropshire. He was baptized 6 January and became apprenticed in 1780 [1] to a renowned Shrewsbury Clockmaker Robert Webster. On 20 December 1790 he married Mary Newall at Ford, Shropshire . Samuel Thorp died in 1838 and was buried in Abberley Churchyard in Worcestershire on 15 February. Mary joined him there on 19 February 1843.[2]

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