Sir Herbert Samuel
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Samuel GCB OM GBE PC |
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| Leader of the Liberal Party | |
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In office 4 November 1931 – 26 November 1935 |
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| Deputy | Archibald Sinclair |
| Preceded by | David Lloyd George |
| Succeeded by | Archibald Sinclair |
| Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party | |
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In office 30 May 1929 – 4 November 1931 |
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| Preceded by | Position created |
| Succeeded by | Archibald Sinclair |
| 1st High Commissioner of Palestine | |
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In office 1 July 1920 – 30 June 1925 |
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| Preceded by | Position created |
| Succeeded by | Sir Herbert Plumer |
| Home Secretary | |
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In office 26 August 1931 – 1 October 1932 |
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| Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
| Preceded by | John Robert Clynes |
| Succeeded by | Sir John Gilmour, Bt |
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In office 12 January – 7 December 1916 |
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| Prime Minister | Herbert Henry Asquith |
| Preceded by | Sir John Simon |
| Succeeded by | Sir George Cave |
| Postmaster-General | |
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In office 26 May 1915 – 18 January 1916 |
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| Prime Minister | Herbert Henry Asquith |
| Preceded by | Sir Charles Hobhouse |
| Succeeded by | Joseph A. Pease |
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In office 14 February 1910 – 11 February 1914 |
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| Prime Minister | Herbert Henry Asquith |
| Preceded by | Sydney Buxton |
| Succeeded by | Sir Charles Hobhouse |
| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
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In office 25 November 1915 – 11 February 1916 |
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| Prime Minister | Herbert Henry Asquith |
| Preceded by | Winston Churchill |
| Succeeded by | Edwin Samuel Montagu |
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In office 25 June 1909 – 14 February 1910 |
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| Prime Minister | Herbert Henry Asquith |
| Preceded by | The Lord Fitzmaurice |
| Succeeded by | Joseph A. Pease |
| President of the Local Government Board | |
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In office 11 February 1914 – 25 November 1915 |
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| Prime Minister | Herbert Henry Asquith |
| Preceded by | John Burns |
| Succeeded by | Walter Long |
| Member of Parliament for Darwen |
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In office 30 May 1929 – 14 November 1935 |
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| Preceded by | Frank Sanderson |
| Succeeded by | Stuart Russell |
| Member of Parliament for Cleveland |
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In office 5 November 1902 – 14 December 1918 |
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| Preceded by | Alfred Pease |
| Succeeded by | Park Goff |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Herbert Louis Samuel 6 November 1870 Toxteth, United Kingdom |
| Died | 5 February 1963 (aged 92) London, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Beatrice Franklin |
| Children |
Edwin Philip Godfrey Nancy |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Religion | atheism since 1892 |
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel GCB OM GBE PC (6 November 1870 – 5 February 1963), was a British Liberal politician who was the party leader from 1931 to 1935. He was the first nominally-practising Jew, although a personal atheist, to serve as a Cabinet minister and to become the leader of a major British political party. Samuel was the last member of the Liberal Party to hold one of the four Great Offices of State. He also served as a diplomat.
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.
Herbert Samuel was born at Claremont No. 11 Belvidere Road, Toxteth, Liverpool, Lancashire, in 1870. The building now houses part of the Belvedere Academy. He was the brother of Sir Stuart Samuel. Educated at University College School in Hampstead, London and Balliol College, Oxford.
He had a Jewish upbringing, but in 1892, while at Oxford he renounced all religious belief, writing to his mother to inform her. Samuel worked through the influence of Charles Darwin and the book On Compromise by senior Liberal politician John Morley. He remained a member of the Jewish community, however, to please his wife, and kept kosher and the Sabbath "for hygienic reasons".
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