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Samwell (subsequently Samuel), Hugh Roderick Lynne, son of David Sydney Samwell AMICE, of Wimbledon, and Edith Margaret, d. of William Thomas Davies of Dowlais, Glamorgan; b. 10 May 1933; adm. Sept. 1946 (R); left July 1951; St John’s Coll. Camb., matric. 1951, BA 1954, MA 1958; assumed surname of Samuel; adm. solicitor Mar. 1958; Wimbledon BC 1959-62, Merton BC 1964-9; contested (Cons. ) Lewisham North 1970, Manchester Blackley Feb. 1974; d. 28 Mar. 2011.

SAMWAIES, PETER, son of “a person about the Court”; bapt. 29 Aug 1615; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1634, adm. pens. 1634, scholar 10 Apr 1635, matr. Easter 1634; 6th in “ordo” 1637/8; BA 1637/8; MA 1641; DD 5 Sep 1660; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1640–50, when ejected for refusing to take the Engagement, Tutor 1641-50; ordained deacon (Rochester) 28 May 1643, priest (London) 9 Apr 1645; Vicar of Cheshunt, Herts., 28 Feb 1654/5 – Mar 1655/6, when ejected by Commissioners for Ejecting Scandalous Ministers for persisting in reading the liturgy of the Church of England (CSP Dom 1658, 83); lived for a time with Thomas, 1st Earl of Elgin, or with his sister Christian, Countess Dowager of Devonshire; Rector of Maulden, Beds., 1657; Rector of Wath by Ripon, Yorks., from 14 Jul 1658 (reinstituted 31 Dec 1660); Rector of Bedale, Yorks., from 28 Aug 1660; Prebendary of York from 27 May 1668; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II (and subsequent monarchs) from 5 May 1673; refused to read James II’s declaration for liberty of conscience 1688, and wrote a letter for publication which had a considerable effect in persuading the clergy of his neighbourhood to take the oaths to William and Mary; bequeathed a portion of the rent arising out of his lands at Middleton to the Westminster scholars elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge; author, Devotion Digested, 1652, and other works; d. 6 Apr 1693. DNB.

By his will dated 16 Jul 1691 he gave certain lands situated at Middleton, in Yorkshire, upon trust as to a portion of the rent, then amounting to £15 per annum, to be disposed by two equal portions to two of the Westminster scholars elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, for buying them books at the time of their admission into their scholarships, with power to the Master and Seniors of Trinity College to divide the annual income among all the Westminster scholars at their discretion. The proceeds were subsequently applied as exhibitions for the two senior of those elected annually to Trinity College.

Samuel, Richard Greville, son of David Samuel MRCS JP, of Skewen, Glam., and Edith Mary, d. of Richard Richards of Aberavon; b. 27 Sept. 1907; adm. Jan. 1922 (G); left July 1925; Emmanuel Coll. Camb., matric. 1927, BA 1930, MA 1944; St Barth. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1935; in practice at Skewen, Swansea, 1937-9; RNVR 1942-5 (Surgn Lieut.); DPH (Lond.) 1945; MO Rootes Group, later Chrysler, retd 1969; m. Jan. 1948 Irene Josephine, d. of F. H. Edwards, solicitor, of Swansea; d. 15 Sept. 1994.

Samuel, Hon. Philip Ellis Herbert, brother of Edwin Herbert Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel (qv); b. 23 Dec. 1900; adm. Sept. 1914 (G); left Apr. 1919; Hong Kong Vol. Force, p.o.w. 1941-5; d. 6 Mar. 1996.

Samuel, The Hon. Godfrey Herbert, brother of Edwin Herbert Samuel (q.v.); b. Jan. 12, 1904; adm. Sept. 27, 1917 (G); left July 1920; Balliol Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1922; 1st class Pol. Econ. 1926; B.A. 1926; M.A. 1947; A.R.I.B.A. 1931; F.R.I.B.A. 1947; secre­tary of the Royal Fine Art Commission since 1948; 2nd Lieut. R.E. Jan. 19, 1940; Staff Capt. War Office; D.A.D.F.W. 1942; D.C.R.E., Shrewsbury 1943; S.O.R.E.I., Gibraltar 1944; demobilised with the rank of Lieut.-Col. Dec. 31, 1946; d. 11 Dec. 1982.

Samuel, Esmond, brother of Donald Edwin Louis Samuel (qv); b. 14 May 1906; adm. Jan. 1920 (G); left July 1920; a stockbroker; d. 20 Jan. 1981.

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.