Moss Turner-Samuels

Moss Turner-Samuels QC (19 October 1888 – 6 June 1957){{cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Bcommons1.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029034522/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/bcommons1.htm |archive-date=29 October 2008 |title=Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "B", part 1 |work=Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages |url-status=usurped |accessdate=8 January 2010}} was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom and barrister.

He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1923 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Barnard Castle constituency,{{cite book

|last=Craig

|first=F. W. S.

|authorlink= F. W. S. Craig

|title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949

|origyear=1969

|edition=3rd

|year=1983

|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn= 0-900178-06-X

|page=338

}} but lost his seat the following year in the 1924 election to the Conservative candidate, Cuthbert Headlam.Craig, op. cit., page 338

He was returned to Parliament twenty years later, in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election, defeating the long-serving Conservative Leslie Boyce in Gloucester.Craig, op. cit., page 137 He was re-elected at the next three general elections,{{cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Gcommons1.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231355/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Gcommons1.htm |archive-date=10 August 2009 |title=Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "G", part 1 |work=Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages |url-status=usurped |accessdate=8 January 2010}} but died in office at Westminster in 1957, aged 68. At the subsequent by-election, his seat was retained for Labour by Jack Diamond.