Obituary of Samuel F. Langham

IN THE CITY.

Most City men will doubtless remember Mr. Samuel Frederick Langham, who died at Worthing on Sunday at the patriarchal age of 85. Many of them, indeed, have sat under him as jurors, for he was many years coroner for the City and Southwark. Born within sound of Bow Bells, he was son of Mr. S.F. Langham, solicitor, formerly Under-Sheriff for the City and Middlesex, and a representative of the Ward of Farringdon Without on the Court of Common Council. After a scholastic course at the Holloway Academy, Mr. Langham was articled to his father, and in due course became a solicitor, practising at Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn Circus. But it was as a Coroner that his chief work was done. Fifty-eight years ago he was appointed Deputy Coroner for Westminster, and subsequently became Deputy Coroner for the City and those portions of the Duchy of Lancaster lying in Middlesex. In 1884 he became Coroner for the City and Southwark - an appointment which he resigned in 1901, being succeeded by Dr. Waldo.

Source: The Shoreditch Observer, Hackney Express, Bethnal Green Chronicle, and Finsbury Gazette, May 2, 1908, Page 5