1st Viscount Herbert Samuel Hand Signed 3X5 Card Dated 1938 COA

  
"1st Viscount" Herbert Samuel Hand Signed 3X5 Card Dated 1938. This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity. Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel. (6 November 1870 - 5 February 1963) was a British. Politician who was the party leader from 1931 to 1935.

He was the first nominally-practising. To serve as a Cabinet minister and to become the leader of a major British political party. Beginning with his 1915 memorandum entitled. In 1920 he was appointed as the first. Samuel was the last member of the Liberal Party to hold one of the four.

One of the adherents of "New Liberalism", Samuel helped to draft and present social reform legislation while he was serving as a Liberal cabinet member. Samuel led the party in both the. During which period the party's number of seats in Parliament fell from 59 to 21.

Herbert Samuel was born at Claremont No. The building now houses part of. Around 1775, his great-grandfather, Menachem Samuel, had emigrated from Kempen in Posen now.

, not far from the city of Posen now. His uncle was born Montagu Samuel. But became better known as.

He was also known by a Hebrew name, Eliezer ben Pinchas Shmuel. From the Spielmann dynasty of bankers and art-connoisseurs. But at home he had a. However, in 1892, while at Oxford he renounced all religious belief, writing to his mother to inform her.

Samuel worked through the influence of. And the book On Compromise by senior Liberal politician.

He remained a member of the Jewish community, however, to please his wife, and observed the Sabbath and Jewish food laws at home "for hygienic reasons".