Metadata: Papers of Herbert Louis Samuel (1870-1963), 1st Viscount Samuel
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Parliamentary Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Parliamentary Archives
- Postal address:
- Houses of ParliamentLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomSW1A 0PW
- Web address:
- https://archives.parliament.uk/
- Reference number:
- SAM
- Title:
- Papers of Herbert Louis Samuel (1870-1963), 1st Viscount Samuel
- Title (official language):
- Papers of Herbert Louis Samuel (1870-1963), 1st Viscount Samuel
- Creator/accumulator:
- Samuel; Herbert Louis (1870-1963); first Viscount Samuel
- Date(s):
- 1880/1963
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 11 series
- Scope and content:
- The Samuel papers cover his life and career from his childhood until the year of his death. Lord Samuel took care so far as possible to preserve both the personal and political letters, and also the papers which he received, intact. In addition he kept drafts and copies of his own letters and made a practice of writing notes concerning any important events in which he had participated at the time when they occurred. The principal gaps in the collection at the House of Lords Record Office (apart from the papers concerning Israel and Jewish matters, deposited in the Israel State Archives) are Departmental Papers (few of which Lord Samuel retained) and Cabinet Papers which, with a few exceptions (see SAM/A/30, SAM/A/41, SAM/A/48, SAM/A/55, SAM/A/81, SAM/A/87, SAM/A/89) he returned to the Cabinet Office.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Herbert Louis Samuel was the son of Edwin Louis Samuel (died 28 March 1877), by Clara (died 1 November 1920), daughter of Ellis Samuel Yeats. His ancestors, of German-Jewish origin, had settled in England in the eighteenth century. He was born on 6 November 1870, at Liverpool; educated at University College School, London, 1884-1888, and Oxford (Balliol College) 1889-1893; MA; Hon Fellow 1935; Hon DCL Oxford 1935; MP (Liberal) for Cleveland Division of Yorkshire 1902-1918 and for Darwen Division of Lancashire 1929-1935; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Home Department 1905-1909; Privy Councillor 21 November 1908; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1909-1910; Postmaster-General 1910-1914; President of the Local Government Board 1914-1915; again Postmaster-General and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1915-1916; Home Secretary 1916, and again 1931-1932; Chairman of the Select Committee on National Expenditure 1917-1918; President of the Royal Statistical Society 1918-1920; British Special Commissioner to Belgium 1919; High Commissioner for Palestine 1920-1925 and also Commander-in-Chief there 1922-1925; Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry 1925-1926; Chairman of the Liberal Party Organisation 1927-1929; Chairman of the Liberal Parliamentary Party 1931-1935; Liberal Leader in the House of Lords 1944-1955; President of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, 1931-1959. He was created, 8 June 1937, Viscount Samuel, of Mount Carmel, and of Toxteth, in the City of Liverpool; GBE 1920; GCB 1926; OM 1958. He married, 17 November 1897, in London, Beatrice Miriam, daughter of Ellis A Franklin, of London, by Adelaide, daughter of Louis Samuel. Lord Samuel died on 5 February 1963.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Samuel, Herbert
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Personal records
- Access, restrictions:
- Open unless otherwise stated
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archives.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/GB61_SAM
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25