Samuel Stocks (ca.1786 – 8 March 1863) and his son Samuel Stocks, jun (ca.1812 – 3 February 1850) were businessmen in the early days of the Colony of South Australia. Stocks was a citizen of Heaton Mersey, near Manchester, where he was senior partner of the bleaching firm of Stocks and Tait which failed during the Panic of 1847. He contested, unsuccessfully, the parliamentary seat of Stockport before migrating to South Australia. He arrived in Adelaide via Sydney on the Dorset on 27 August 1843.At some stage he returned to England and arrived back in Adelaide with his wife Barbara on the Zealous on 26 May 1848.