Viscountcy of Samuel | |
Creation Date: | 8 June 1937 |
Present Holder: | Jonathan Samuel |
Heir Presumptive: | The Hon. Benjamin Samuel |
Remainder To: | Heirs male of the first viscount's body, lawfully begotten |
Motto: | Turn Not Aside |
Viscount Samuel, of Mount Carmel and of Toxteth in the City of Liverpool, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 8 June 1937 for the Liberal politician and former High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine, Herbert Samuel. His grandsons, the third and fourth Viscounts, were respectively a prominent Israeli chemist and neurobiologist, and an oil executive. As of 2014 the title is held by the 4th Viscount's son, who succeeded as fifth Viscount in that year.
The first Viscount Samuel was the nephew of the banker Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling.
The heir presumptive and last in line is the present holder's half-brother Hon. Benjamin Angus Samuel (b. 1983).[1]