Major Major most commonly refers to: * Major (rank), a military rank * Academic major, an academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits * People named Major, including given names, surnames, nicknames * Major and minor in musi ...

Peter Montefiore Samuel, 4th Viscount Bearsted MC TD (9 December 1911 – 9 June 1996) was a British peer and a director of

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. He also was a deputy chairman of Shell Transport and Trading. Samuel was commissioned into the

Warwickshire Yeomanry The Warwickshire Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1794, which served as cavalry and machine gunners in the First World War and as a cavalry and an armoured regiment in the Second World War, before being amalg ...

in March 1936. He served throughout the

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, being awarded the

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in 1943 and ending the war as an acting

major Major most commonly refers to: * Major (rank), a military rank * Academic major, an academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits * People named Major, including given names, surnames, nicknames * Major and minor in musi ...

. He succeeded his elder brother in the

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cy in 1986.

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Portraits of Peter Montefiore Samuel, 4th Viscount Bearsted in the National Portrait Galley
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bearsted, 4th Viscount 1911 births 1996 deaths Recipients of the Military Cross Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom English people of Iraqi-Jewish descent Warwickshire Yeomanry officers British Army personnel of World War II