Viscount Samuel

A biography of Herbert Samuel, a British Jew who served as High Commissioner in British Mandated Palestine. This biography attempts to potray the man, to relate his political theory to his practice, and to place his career in perspective against the historic unfolding of the great events in which he has taken part.

Herbert Louis Samuel, first Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and of Toxteth in Liverpool, was born in that city on November 6th, 1870, in the third year of Mr. Gladstone`s first administration and in the autumn of the Franco-Prussian War. The fourth and youngest son of Edwin Louis Samuel, of the great banking firm of Samuel Montagu, and of Clara Yates of Liverpool, he came on both sides of Jewish stock.