Samuel, Edwin Herbert, Viscount, eldest son of Herbert Louis, 1st Viscount Samuel, P.C., of Bayswater, by Beatrice Miriam, youngest daughter of Ellis Abraham Franklin, of Bayswater; b. Sept. 11, 1898; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (G); left April 1917; served in Palestine in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. Aug. 12, 1917; Balliol Coll. Oxon., matric. Hilary 1919; B.A. 1920; District Officer, Palestine 1920-7; Asst. Government Secretary 1927-30; Commonwealth Fund Fellow, Columbia Univ., U.S.A., 1931-2; Asst. District Commissioner, Galilee, 1933-4; Deputy Commissioner for Migration 1934-9; Postal Telegraph Censor, Jerusalem, 1939-42; Chief Censor 1942-5; Director of Broadcasting, 1945-8; Principal, Israel Institute of Public Administration, 1947; lecturer, Italian Univ. Jerusalem since 1954; visiting professor, Dropsie Coll. Philadelphia, U.S.A., 1948-9; visiting lecturer, Witwatersrand Univ., Johannesburg, 1953 and visiting professor, Graduate School of Public Affairs, State Univ. New York, 1963; author of The Theory of Administration (1947), Problems of Government in the State of Israel (1956), three volumes of short stories and other works; C.M.G. June 12, 1947; m. Dec. 6, 1920, Hadassl, elder daughter of Y. Goor, of Jaffa, Palestine; d. 16 Nov. 1978.
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