Viscount Samuel

Viscountcy of Samuel
Escutcheon: Or a Bend between two Caps of Liberty Gules on a Chief Sable a Balance of the first: Crest: In front of a Sun rising Or a Dove wings elevated and addorsed holding in the beak an Olive Branch proper; Supporters: On either side a Lion Or the dexter gorged with a Collar Gules and resting the interior hind leg on a Stump of Oak eradicated and sprouting proper the sinister gorged with an Eastern Crown also Gules and resting the interior hind leg on a Stump of Olive eradicated and sprouting also proper ^[1]
Creation date	8 June 1937
Created by	King George VI
Peerage	Peerage of the United Kingdom
First holder	Sir Herbert Samuel
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.^[2] 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.

Viscounts Samuel (1937)

Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870–1963)
Edwin Herbert Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel (1898–1978)
David Herbert Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel (1922–2014)
Dan Judah Samuel, 4th Viscount Samuel (1925–2014)
Jonathan Herbert Samuel, 5th Viscount Samuel (b. 1965)

The heir presumptive and last in line is the present holder's half-brother Hon. Benjamin Angus Samuel (b. 1983).^[3]

^ [1]^{[dead link]}
^ "No. 34405". The London Gazette. 8 June 1937. p. 3663.
^ Morris, Susan; Bosberry-Scott, Wendy; Belfield, Gervase, eds. (2019). "Samuel, Viscount". Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Vol. 1 (150th ed.). London: Debrett's Ltd. pp. 3086–3088. ISBN 978-1-999767-0-5-1.

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, ^{[page needed]}
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages ^{[self-published source]} ^{[better source needed]}
http://www.westportnow.com/index.php?/v2_5/obitjump/dan_samuel_89/

v t e Extant viscountcies in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
Sorted by kingdom in which created, then creation date
England	Hereford
Scotland	Falkland Arbuthnott Oxfuird
Great Britain	Bolingbroke St John Cobham Falmouth Torrington Hood
Ireland	Gormanston Mountgarret Valentia Dillon Massereene Charlemont Downe Molesworth Chetwynd Midleton Boyne Gage Galway Powerscourt Ashbrook Southwell de Vesci Lifford Bangor Doneraile Harberton Hawarden Ferrard Monck Gort
United Kingdom	St Vincent Melville Sidmouth Exmouth Combermere Hill Hardinge Bridport Portman Hampden Hambleden Knutsford Esher Goschen Ridley Colville of Culross Selby Knollys Allendale Chilston Scarsdale Mersey Cowdray Devonport Astor Wimborne St Davids Rothermere Allenby Chelmsford Long Ullswater Younger of Leckie Bearsted Craigavon Bridgeman Hailsham Brentford Buckmaster Bledisloe Hanworth Trenchard Samuel Runciman of Doxford Davidson Weir Caldecote Camrose Stansgate Margesson Daventry Addison Kemsley Marchwood Montgomery of Alamein Waverley Thurso Brookeborough Norwich Leathers Soulbury Chandos Malvern De L'Isle Monckton of Brenchley Tenby Mackintosh of Halifax Dunrossil Stuart of Findhorn Rochdale Slim Head Boyd of Merton Mills Blakenham Eccles Dilhorne
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