Viscount Samuel, of

Mount Carmel Mount Carmel ( he, הַר הַכַּרְמֶל, Har haKarmel; ar, جبل الكرمل, Jabal al-Karmil), also known in Arabic as Mount Mar Elias ( ar, link=no, جبل مار إلياس, Jabal Mār Ilyās, lit=Mount Saint Elias/Elijah), is a c ...

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and

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in the City of Liverpool, is a title in the

Peerage of the United Kingdom The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union 1800, Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the ...

. It was created on 8 June 1937 for the

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politician and former High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine, Herbert Samuel. His grandsons, the third and fourth Viscounts, were respectively a prominent

i chemist and neurobiologist, and an oil executive. As of 2014 the title is held by the 4th Viscount's son, who succeeded as fifth Viscount in that year. The first Viscount Samuel was the nephew of the banker

Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling (21 December 1832 – 12 January 1911), was a British banker who founded the bank of Samuel Montagu & Co. He was a philanthropist and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons of ...

Viscounts Samuel (1937)

Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, (6 November 1870 – 5 February 1963) was a British Liberal politician who was the party leader from 1931 to 1935. He was the first nominally-practising Jew to serve as a Cabinet minister and to beco ...

(1870–1963) *

Edwin Herbert Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel Edwin Herbert Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel (; 11 September 1898 – 14 November 1978), was a British lord, also active in Mandatory Palestine and the State of Israel. The son of Beatrice Franklin and Herbert Samuel – Palestine's first h ...

(1898–1978) * David Herbert Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel (1922–2014) * Dan Judah Samuel, 4th Viscount Samuel (1925–2014) * Jonathan Herbert Samuel, 5th Viscount Samuel (b. 1965) The

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is the present holder's half-brother Hon. Benjamin Angus Samuel (b. 1983).

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*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, * *http://www.westportnow.com/index.php?/v2_5/obitjump/dan_samuel_89/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Samuel Viscountcies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Noble titles created in 1937 Noble titles created for UK MPs British Jewish families

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