Peter Samuel, 4th Viscount Bearsted
Major Peter Montefiore Samuel, 4th Viscount Bearsted MC TD (9 December 1911 – 9 June 1996) was a British peer and former Deputy Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading.
Samuel was commissioned into the Warwickshire Yeomanry in March 1936. He served throughout the Second World War, being awarded the Military Cross in 1943 and ending the war as an Acting Major. He succeeded his elder brother in the viscountcy in 1986.
Titles and honours[]
- Mr Peter Samuel (1911–1927)
- The Hon. Peter Samuel (1927–1943)
- The Hon. Peter Samuel MC (1943–1951)
- The Hon. Peter Samuel MC TD (1951–1986)
- The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Bearsted MC TD (1986–1996)
References[]
External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Bearsted
Categories:
- 1911 births
- 1996 deaths
- Recipients of the Military Cross
- Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- English people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
- Warwickshire Yeomanry officers
- British politicians of Iraqi descent
- British Army personnel of World War II