Walter Horace Samuel,2nd Viscount Bearsted of Maidstone,Kent
also 2nd Baronet Samuel and 2nd Baron Bearsted of Maidstone,Kent
born 13.3.1882 London
son of Marcus Samuel,1st Viscount Bearsted and Fanny Elizabeth (nee Benjamin) Samuel,Lady Bearsted
family home Upton House,Warwickshire
succeeded to titles 19.1.1927
educated Eton College 1895-1901
educated New College,Oxford 1901-05
served WW1
West Kent Yeomanry (Captain)
awards M.C.,Mention in Despatches twice
Intelligence Corps in WW2
SOE HQ London (recruitment) 1940 (Colonel)
Director of Shell Transport and Trading Company
Director of Lloyds Bank Ltd
Director of Alliance Assurance Company
married Dorothy Montefiore Micholls 23.7.1908 London (later Lady Bearsted) (died 19.12.1949) (4 children)
died 8.11.1948
