Samuel Phillip Viant CBE JP MP (5 January 1882 – 19 May 1964) was a British Labour Party politician. Born in Plymouth, and educated at Devonport Higher Grade School, Viant worked as a carpenter and moved to London. There, he became active in the abstinence movement and also in the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners and the Independent Labour Party. He studied at Paddington School for Social Science and Ruskin College. He actively campaigned across the country for the Co-operative movement as well as the Independent Labour Party, and prior to 1914 served as vice chair of the Conciliation Committee for the Building Industry. In 1915 he became a member of the Executive of the London Labour Party. Unsuccessful in gaining election to both Paddington and Willesden councils, Viant did