Sir Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen, 1st Baronet (29 May 1914 – 3 July 1991) was a British businessman. He was the 633rd

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, elected in 1960.

Biography

The son of Sir Robert Waley Cohen and Alice (''née'' Beddington), Waley-Cohen was educated at

Clifton College ''The spirit nourishes within'' , established = 160 years ago , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent boarding and day school , religion = Christian , president = , head_label = Head of College , head ...

where he was a member of Polack's House. He was an Alderman

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for Portsoken Ward, 1949–84;

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, 1955–56;

, 1960–61; one of the Lieutenants, City of London, 1949–1991. He was a director of the Palestine Corporation, founded in 1922 by a number British businessmen to promote economic development in the British mandate of Palestine. Waley-Cohen was a member of the College Committee of

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, 1953–80. He was Treasurer 1962–70, Vice-Chairman 1970 and Chairman, 1971–80. In former times, as Alderman, he sometimes sat as sole Justice in the Mansion House Justice Room. He was made a

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in 1957 and made a Baronet of Honeymead in the County of Somerset, in 1961. Waley-Cohen married the Hon. Joyce Constance Ina, daughter of

Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan Harry Louis Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan, (2 February 1889 – 23 October 1963) was a British Liberal politician who from 1934 onwards represented the Labour Party. He served two London seats non-consecutively and while serving the second seat w ...

(1920–2013). They had four children: * Rosalind Burdon (married to businessman and former New Zealand politician and Cabinet Minister, Hon

Philip Burdon Philip Ralph Burdon (born 25 March 1939) is a former New Zealand politician and lawyer by profession. He was the co-founder of Meadow Mushrooms. Early life and family Burdon was born in Geraldine on 25 March 1939, the son of Cotsford Carlton Bu ...

) * Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen *

Joanna Waley-Cohen Joanna Waley-Cohen (born 1952) is the Provost for New York University Shanghai and Silver Professor of History at New York University, where she has taught Chinese history since 1992. As Provost, she serves as NYU Shanghai's chief academic office ...

Robert Waley-Cohen Robert Bernard Waley-Cohen DL (born 10 November 1948 in Westminster, London) is an English entrepreneur. Biography He is the son of Bernard Waley-Cohen and Joyce Waley-Cohen, and grandson of Sir Robert Waley Cohen and Harry Nathan, 1st Baron ...

Their grandson (son of Robert) is the amateur jockey

Sam Waley-Cohen Sam Bernard Waley-Cohen (born 15 April 1982) is a retired amateur English National Hunt jockey and entrepreneur. Horse racing Waley-Cohen was reported in the sports pages in 2007 when he came 5th on his father's horse Liberthine in the Grand N ...

who won the 2022 Grand National riding Noble Yeats. A 50/1 odds outsider, it was described as a fairytale win.

Arms

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