Papers of Hon. P. E. H. Samuel

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: University of Southampton Special Collections

Postal address:: Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ

Scope and content:: This collection comprises: Personalia and literary works, including the typescript of a novel, `Time is come around: a tale of Hong Kong's centenary', late 1940s, and Philip Samuel's recollections, 1987 (4 files).

Business correspondence and papers relating to the Association of Jewish Youth, Bayswater Jewish Schools, the Inter-University Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, the Joint British Committee for the Reconstruction of East European Jewry (ORT-OZE), and the Union of Jewish Literary Societies, 1922-38 (13 files).

Letters to his mother, 1909 41 (32 files); letters to his father, 1917 45 (16 files); letters from his parents, 1916 41, including correspondence from Jerusalem while Lord Samuel was High Commissioner for Palestine, 1922-6 (2 files).

Letters to Philip Samuel, 1925 48, including Hong Kong and Shanghai correspondence, with photographs, and the rules and regulations of the ‘Ohel Leah' Synagogue, Hong Kong, 1940-1 (2 files).

Papers of Lord and Lady Samuel, and Lord Samuel's private secretary, D Seimons, relating to Philip Samuel's capture and internment by the Japanese in 1941-2 and his release in 1945 (3 files).

Archival history:: Parts of the collection have been drawn from the papers of Philip Samuel's parents, Lord and Lady Samuel.

Administrative/biographical history:: 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 Franklin. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. From 1923 to 1929 he worked for Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd., publishers; and from 1930 until 1939 he acted as a purchasing agent and consultant on office equipment, supplies and methods, as well as running the P.S. Secretarial Centre, a secretarial bureau in High Holborn. In 1939 he went to Hong Kong and Shanghai as a confidential office manager for Sir Elly Kadoorie and Sons, where he remained until interned by the Japanese at the fall of Hong Kong in 1941. He was a prisoner of war until 1945, being transferred to Japan for factory work. After the war he developed his interest in social work and welfare activities, acting as secretary/organiser of the London Association for the Welfare of the Physically Handicapped, 1951-6, and London Branches organiser for the Save the Children Fund. Philip Samuel acted in several positions, one of which included editor of the BULLETIN of the Inter-University Jewish Federation of Great Britain and Ireland and affiliated student societies, 1922.

Access points: persons/families:: Samuel, Beatrice; Samuel, Herbert; Samuel, Philip Ellis Herbert; Seimons, D

Subject terms:: Education; Personal records; Prisoners; Synagogues; Trade and commerce

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