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  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and of Toxteth, OM (November 6, 1870 - February 2, 1963) was a British politician and diplomat.
Samuel had been a Member of Parliament representing the Liberal Party and was appointed to Cabinet in 1910 by Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, as Postmaster General and later Home Secretary, the first practicing Jew appointed to the British cabinet.
Samuel lost his seat in the election of 1918 and became a candidate to represent British interests in the territory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herbert_Samuel,_1st_Viscount_Samuel   (678 words)

  
 The Seafaring Hoods of Netherbury, Dorset
Samuel and Alexander are often mistaken for their equally famous cousins and contemporaries, Sir Samuel Hood, (1st Viscount Whitby) and his brother Alexander, (1st Viscount Bridport) who were the sons of the Rev Samuel Hood.
Samuel was born on 27 Nov 1762 and baptized on 25 May 1763 at Netherbury.
As described in the inscription in Netherbury church, Samuel Hood was present at The Battle of the Nile on the 1st of August 1798, where under Vice Admiral.
www.thedorsetpage.com /history/Seafaring_Hoods/seafaring_hoods.htm   (635 words)

  
 Herbert Louis, First Viscount Samuel
During his term of office, the Jewish population doubled; extensive Jewish settlement was carried out; local councils were organized and the Hebrew language was recognized as one of the three official languages of the country.
Samuel returned to politics in England and in 1928 reentered the House of Commons.
Samuel had been knighted in 1920 and in 1937 was made a Viscount.
www.jafi.org.il /education/100/people/BIOS/samuel.html   (314 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - Grooves of Change, by Viscount Samuel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hurwitz, Samuel J. IF THE age of discretion is reached when one has learned how to be indiscreet discreetly, Viscount Samuel, at the age of seventy-five, has not yet attained it.
...Viscount Samuel adds little that is new except to emphasize, unwittingly, the background of imperial interests that led to the Balfour Declaration...
...The entrance of Turkey into the war and the dissolution of her empire, which was expected to accompany her defeat, forced British statesmen, including Herbert Samuel, to consider the future of Palestine...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V1I8P100-1.htm   (669 words)

  
 Herbert Samuel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Herbert Samuel, the son of a successful banker, Edwin Louis Samuel, was born in 1870.
Although the parliamentary inquiry revealled that Samuel, David Lloyd George, Sir Rufus Isaacs and the Master of Elibank had profited directly from the policies of the government, it was decided the men had not been guilty of corruption.
In the 1918 General Election Samuel supported Herbert Asquith wing of the Liberal Party instead of David Lloyd George and was defeated at Cleveland.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRsamuel.htm   (479 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (1880-1959), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was a British Conservative politician who served in various capacities in the Conservative and National governments of the 1920s and 1930s.
Hoare was educated at Harrow and New College, Oxford, and was first elected to the House of Commons for Chelsea in 1910.
In this role he sought to encourage Francisco Franco to keep Spain out of the war, in which he was successful.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Samuel-Hoare,-1st-Viscount-Templewood   (395 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel was a British politician and diplomat.
In 1920 he was appointed the first High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine and served in that office unti...
This led to the bizarre situation where a Jew, Herbert Samuel, was to appoint the Islamic leader, in this case Hakk Amin Al Husseini, who later proved a thorn in the side of the British administration in Palestine.
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 THE SHELL MERCHANT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It was no mean achievement for a Jew--and a Jew not from the old Sephardic families, but from the East End of London, a descendant of immigrants who had come to Britain in 1750 from Holland and Bavaria.
Samuel had the same name as his father, Marcus Samuel, most unusual for a professing Jew.
In addition, in what was to prove of great importance to his son, the elder Samuel had built up a network of trusted relationships with some of the great British trading houses--run mainly by expatriate Scots--in Calcutta, Singapore, Bangkok, Manila, Hong Kong, and other parts of the Far East.
web.nwe.ufl.edu /~stripp/fetish/samuel.html   (238 words)

  
 ADCs
Unfortunately, in 1952 Viscount Althorp was nowhere near Australia - both the newspapers over this period and the curator of the Spencer Estate confirm this.
Coincidentally, but of no especial merit to anyone other than me - the SS Strathnaver, sister ship to the SS Stratheden (as the RMS Stratheden became) was the migrant ship in which I arrived in Australia and was also used to transport the ARU side to Ceylon in 1953.
"Viscount Althorp will fly on Saturday to Hobart where he will be the guest of the Governor of Tasmania for a fortnight before he returns to England via Canada.
www.oldcollegiansrugby.org.au /history/gallery/spencer.shtml   (714 words)

  
 LORD HOOD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But he became involved in a public dispute with the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Spencer, over the number of ships allocated to his fleet and was so aggressive in his demands and criticisms that Spencer felt obliged to dismiss him.
In 1796 he was created a British peer as Viscount Hood of Catherington (Hampshire), became an elder of Trinity House and was appointed Governor of Greenwich Hospital, a post he held until his death, at the age of ninety-two, on 27
It therefore fell to him, in December 1805, to receive the body of his protégé when it was brought to the hospital to lie in state and the following month he acted as one of the supporters to the chief mourner at Nelson's funeral in St Paul's Cathedral.
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 Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He played an important role in negotiating an end to the general strike of 1926.
In the Commons again (1929–35), Samuel was home secretary (1931–32) and leader of the Liberal party (1931–35).
Samuel’s writings include Practical Ethics (1935), Belief and Action: An Everyday Philosophy (1937), and In Search of Reality (1957).
www.bartleby.com /65/sa/Samuel-H.html   (153 words)

  
 Samuel Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Samuel family arrived in England from Posen on the continent in the late eighteenth century and settled in London.
For the purposes of this web site the genealogical connection to the Samuel family is as follows: Moses Samuel was the father of Marian Samuel who married Jonas Reis whose youngest son Alphonse Louis Reis married Marian Dugan whose son Gordon Stanley Reis was the father of Allwynne Reis who married Frank Man.
The two Samuel bothers would have been surprised at what their descendants achieved with the businesses which they started.
www.manfamily.org /Samuel_Family.htm   (525 words)

  
 University of Southampton Libraries Special Collections - MS 203 Papers of Hon. Philip Ellis Herbert Samuel, c.1909-92
Philip Ellis Herbert Samuel (1900-c.1992) was the second son of Herbert Louis Samuel, first Viscount Samuel, and his wife, Beatrice, daughter of Ellis A.Franlin.
Philip Samuel was editor of the Bulletin of the Inter-University Jewish Federation of Great Britain and Ireland and affiliated student societies, 1922, the publication of which was associated with the Jewish Guardian newspaper; treasurer of the Union of Jewish Literary Societies, c.
Letters from Samuel to his mother, Beatrice, Viscountess Samuel, 1909-41 (32 files); letters to his father, Herbert Louis Samuel, first Viscount Samuel, 1917-45 (16 files); letters from his parents, 1916-41, including correspondence from Jerusalem when Lord Samuel was High Commissioner for Palestine, 1922-6 (2 files)
www.archives.lib.soton.ac.uk /guide/MS203.shtml   (465 words)

  
 Reis Generation One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The ceremony was witnessed by Saul Samuel and Edwin Louis Samuel, cousins of the bride.
He married Marian Samuel, whose father was Moses, the brother of Louis Samuel the father of the Marian who had married Adam Spielmann.
His life was passed in Liverpool as banker, starting at Stanley Buildings, 12 Bath Street in 1851; and the esteem in which he was held is shown in the eulogy spoken on the occasion of the setting of his tomb-stone in December of the year of his death.' pp.
www.manfamily.org /reis_gen_one.htm   (722 words)

  
 H.M.S. Hood Association—Battle Cruiser Hood: History of the Great Naval Hoods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It was from Samuel's line that the first great naval Hoods, Samuel, 1st Viscount Hood, and Alexander, 1st Viscount Bridport, arose.
She was in fact, named for the greatest of the naval Hoods, 1st Viscount Hood of Whitley (Lord Samuel Hood).
Courageux was commanded by 2nd cousin Captain (later 1st Viscount) Samuel Hood.
www.hmshood.com /ship/history/Family.html   (2047 words)

  
 Jewish Heraldry
A manuscript of 1383 shows the arms of Samuel, son of Doctor Samuel of Venice, per fess a lion issuant and a fess wavy.
Later peers include Rufus Isaacs (baron 1914, viscount 1916, marquis of Reading 1926), Samuel (viscount Bearsted in 1925), Herbert Samuel (viscount Samuel 1937), Montagu Samuel-Montagu (baron Swaythling in 1907), Jessel (baron Jessel in 1924), Mond (baron Melchett in 1928), Samuel (baron Mancroft in 1937), Nathan (baron Nathan in 1940), Silkin (baron Silkin in 1950).
Their coats of arms sometimes contain allusions to their origins: the supporters of lord Swaythling are "soldiers of ancient Judea", the crest of viscount Bearsted is "a dexter arm embowed proper grasping a battle-axe argent, the head charged with two triangles interlaced sable" (i.e., the star of David).
www.heraldica.org /topics/jewish.htm   (3843 words)

  
 Benjamin Hallowell Biography - Part 1
Soon after this event, Sir Samuel Hood returned with his squadron to the West Indies, and Lieutenant Hallowell was subsequently removed into the Alfred, another 74, which formed part of the fleet under the orders of the same gallant Commander.
The Alfred also formed part of the detachment sent under Sir Samuel Hood in pursuit of the fleeing enemy and was consequently present at the capture of two ships of the line - one frigate and one corvette, in the Mona Passage, on the l9th of the same month.
In our memoirs of Viscount Keith Lord Radstock, and Sir W. Sidney Smith, we have already related the proceedings of the British up to the l9th of December - when the French fleet and arsenal at Toulon were destroyed.
www.aandc.org /research/sir_benjamin_hallowell_bio1.htm   (4093 words)

  
 Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount on Encyclopedia.com
In the Commons again (1929-35), Samuel was home secretary (1931-32) and leader of the Liberal party (1931-35).
Pictures and Maps for: Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount
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 AllRefer.com - Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount, British And Irish History, Biographies
Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount 1870–1963, British statesman.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 11827   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He was the son of Samuel Samuel and Leah Keyser.
She married Marcus Samuel, son of Samuel Samuel and Leah Keyser.
She married Sir Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted, son of Marcus Samuel and Abigail Moss, on 19 January 1881 in Synagogue, Bayswater, London, England.
www.thepeerage.com /p11827.htm   (1451 words)

  
 Griersons by Deed Poll - Page 11
The engagement is announced between ROBERT BERNARD, younger son of (Sir) Bernard and the (Honorable) (Lady) Waley-Cohen, of Honeymead, Simonsbath, Minehead, Somerset, [England], and FELICITY ANN, daughter of VISCOUNT BEARSTED, of Upton House, Edgehill, Banbury, Oxford-shire, and Mrs.
Benjamin Samuel (son of the Honourable Michael (son of Viscount Bearsted) & Julia Samuel).
The title Viscount Bearsted was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1925.
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 Ill Met in Amber - Cast - Hawk
Samuel was much older than her, and to all it was obviously not a love match.
Gavin generously gave her an allowance and allowed her to reside in his City House, saving her from having to return to her father's Household.
At the same time, having found people she could really be herself with, she also found the motivations to raise her position.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 11828   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He was the son of Sir Walter Horace Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted and Dorothy Montefiore Micholls.
She married Sir Marcus Richard Samuel, 3rd Viscount Bearsted, son of Sir Walter Horace Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted and Dorothy Montefiore Micholls, on 15 January 1947.
She married, secondly, Sir Marcus Richard Samuel, 3rd Viscount Bearsted, son of Sir Walter Horace Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted and Dorothy Montefiore Micholls, on 24 January 1968.
www.thepeerage.com /p11828.htm   (1523 words)

  
 BHC2573 : Captain Alexander Hood, 1726-1814, 1st Viscount Bridport ...
The sea is shown in the background with an action from 1761, depicting Hood recapturing the British ship, 'Warwick', from the French in the Mediterranean.
Created Viscount Bridport in 1800, he was the younger brother of Samuel, 1st Viscount Hood, and commanded the frigate Minerva, 32 guns, at Quiberon Bay in 1759.
In 1778 he commanded the 'Robust', 74 guns, in Palliser's division of the fleet at Ushant and took his side in the subsequent courts martial known as 'the Keppel affair'.
www.nmm.ac.uk /mag/pages/mnuExplore/PaintingDetail.cfm?letter=C&ID=BHC2573   (518 words)

  
 The Best Reviews: Susan Johnson, Seduction In Mind Reviews
Sammuel Lennox, the Viscount Ranelagh, becomes interested in finding out the identity of the woman who is the model for the nude paintings he has been buying.
He tracks her down at the artist's studio and learns that she is Alexandra Ionides, thirty years old, twice widowed and with a Read more...
Viscount Samuel Ranelagh is a libertine of the highest order.
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 capthood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Samuel, Lord Viscount Hood, Admiral of the White, master and governor of Greenwich Hospital, sometime commander of His Majesty's fleet at Portsmouth, governor of the Naval Academy and member of the Board of Admiralty, was one of Britain's outstanding naval figures.
A few days later, Graves notified Hood the French were blockading the Chesapeake, a move that would force Cornwallis to surrender his army to George Washington.
Hood replied, "Sir Samuel would be very glad to send an opinion, but he really knows not what to say in the truly lamentable state we have brought ourselves."
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 Sir Benjamin HALLOWELL
This officer is the son of a gentleman who was the last surviving Commissioner of the American Board of Customs, and died at York, in Upper Canada Mar. 28, 1799.
She also formed part of the detachment sent under Sir Samuel Hood in pursuit of the flying enemy and was consequently present at the capture of two ships of the line, one frigate and a corvette., in the Mona Passage, on the l9th of the same month.
Our officer, on returning to Malta, in his letters to Earl St. Vincent and Viscount Nelson, entered at considerable length on the insidious character of this Bey, and transmitted much valuable information respecting the then state of Egypt.
www.aandc.org /research/hallowell_biography.html   (4528 words)

  
 National Trust | Upton House | What to see & do
The house, built in 1695 of mellow local stone, was purchased and remodelled 1927-29 by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted, Chairman of Shell 1921-46 and son of the founder of that company.
There is an exhibition of paintings and publicity posters commissioned by Shell during Viscount Bearsted's chairmanship; also Lady Bearsted's restored Art Deco bathroom.
The garden is very fine, with terraces, herbaceous borders, kitchen garden, ornamental pools and an interesting 1930s water garden, together with the National Collection of Asters.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk /main/cymraeg/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-uptonhouse/w-uptonhouse-seeanddo.htm   (120 words)

  
 Search Results for Carmel - Encyclopædia Britannica
Settled about 1770, it was laid out in 1848 and became an anthracite coal-mining town.
Samuel (of Mount Carmel and of Toxteth), Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount
Samuel (of Mount Carmel and of Toxeth), Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount
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