Samuel, Edwin Herbert, 1898-1978

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Samuel, Edwin Herbert, 1898-1978

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        Dates of existence

        1898-1978

        History

        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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        GB-2014-WSA-15196

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        GB 2014

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        International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition

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        Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020

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            The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1883 to Election 1960, Volume 3, compiled by J.B. Whitmore, G.R.Y. Radcliffe and D.C. Simpson, Barnet, 1963

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