Samuel Bernard (1615-1687)
Samuel Bernard may refer to: * Samuel Bernard (financier) (1651–1739), French noble and financier * Samuel Bernard (artist), his father, French miniature painter and engraver * Samuel Bernard (Jamaica), speaker of the House of Assembly of Jamaica for 1679–88 See also * Sam Bernard Sam Bernard (born Samuel Barnett, 5 June 1863 – 16 May 1927) was an English-born American vaudeville comedian who also performed in musical theatre, comic opera and burlesque and appeared in a few silent films. Life and career Bernard was bor ...

Samuel Bernard (financier)
Samuel Bernard (1651 in Sancerre – January 18, 1739, in Paris), Count of Coubert (1725), was a French noble and financier. Life Of Dutch origin, Samuel Bernard was the son of the painter and engraver Samuel-Jacques Bernard (1615-1687). His family was Protestant, but his father, according to the apocryphal memoirs of the Marquise de Créquy, "had embraced the sect of Arminius ndhad been forced into exile." He created the French Guinea Company. Declared by Saint-Simon to be "the most famous and richest banker in Europe," he lent important funding to the Kingdom of France during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV. Louis XIV, having exhausted his finances, notably turned to Bernard in 1708 to finance the War of the Spanish Succession. In order that the King would not have to stoop to receive the financier in an audience, the Controller-General of Finances, Nicolas Desmarets (1648-1721), carefully choreographed a meeting which took place at Marly. According to Saint-Sim ...
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Samuel Bernard (artist)
Samuel Bernard, also known as Jacques-Samuel Bernard The ULAN database gives "Samuel Bernard as the preferred version. was a French miniature painter and engraver. Life Born to a Protestant family in Paris in 1615, he was the son of Noel Bernard, a painter. He was a pupil of both Simon Vouet and of Louis du Guernier, and made some attempts at fresco painting, but not succeeding to his expectation, he painted miniatures for a while, before finally devoting himself entirely to engraving. Some still lifes, painted in the early 1660s are also known. He joined the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture on its foundation in 1648 and became professor there in 1655. He was expelled on religious grounds in 1681, but restored to his post following his recantation of Protestantism four years later. He died in Paris in 1687. The financier Samuel Bernard was his son. Works He engraved plates, both in line and in mezzotint. They include: Line engravings *''Charles Louis, Duke of ...
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Samuel Bernard (Jamaica)
Samuel Bernard was the speaker of the House of Assembly of Jamaica for 1679–88. Cundall, Frank. (1915''Historic Jamaica''.London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xvi-xviii. See also * List of speakers of the House of Assembly of Jamaica This is a list of speakers of the House of Assembly of Jamaica (1664-1865). Cundall, Frank. (1915''Historic Jamaica''.London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xvi-xviii. 17th century * 1664. Robert Freeman * 1664. Sir Thomas Whetstone * 1671. Samuel ... References Year of birth missing Year of death missing Speakers of the House of Assembly of Jamaica 17th-century Jamaican people {{Jamaica-politician-stub ...
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