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Sir Samuel Bagster Boulton, 1st Baronet (1830 - April 27 1918) was the first baronet of Copped Hall, a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England, Lord of the Manor of Totteridge, Justice of the Peace, and Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire.
He was chairman of Burt, Boulton, and Haywood (Limited), of London, Paris, Riga, Salzaette, and Bilbao, timber merchants and contractors, a business, he founded in the 1860s with H. P. Burt. He was also chairman of the Dominion Tar and Chemical Company (Limited), and of the British Australian Timber Company (Limited).
He actively promoted scientific methods in the chemical and other industries and contributed to the literature of the subject. In 1884 he was awarded the Telford Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was Chairman of the London Labour Conciliation and Arbitratation Board from 1889 to 1913, Vice-President of the London Chamber of Commerce from 1893 to 1898 and President of the West Ham Chamber of Commerce from 1893 to 1902.
He died in 1918 and was buried in the Boulton family vault in Brookwood Cemetery. He had married Sophia Louisa, the daughter of Thomas Cooper, and had two sons and five daughters. He was succeeded by his son Harold Edwin Boulton. A plaque commemorates him at St Andrew's church, Totteridge.