Arthur Samuel, 1st Baron Mancroft
- Arthur Samuel, 1st Baron Mancroft
Sir Arthur Michael Samuel, 1st Baronet, 1st Baron Mancroft of Mancroft (6 December, 1872 - 17 August, 1942), was a British Conservative politician.
The eldest son of Benjamin Samuel of Norwich (April 19, 1840 – April 16, 1890, son of Michael Samuel (1799-1857) and wife) and wife, married on February 14, 1872, Rosetta Haldinstein (died April 29, 1907, daughter of Philip Haldinstein and wife Rachel Soman), all of them Ashkenazi Jews, Samuel was Lord Mayor of Norwich from 1912 to 1913. In 1918 he was elected to Parliament for Farnham, a seat he would hold until 1937, and served under Stanley Baldwin as Secretary for Overseas Trade from 1924 to 1927 and as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1927 to 1929. He was also Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons in 1930 and 1931. Samuel was created a Baronet, of Norwich in the County of Norfolk, in 1932 and in 1937 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Mancroft, of Mancroft in the City of Norwich.
Lord Mancroft married Phoebe Fletcher, daughter of George Alfred Chune Fletcher and wife, in 1912. He died in August 1942, aged 69, and was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony by his son Stormont Mancroft Samuel Mancroft. He was also to become a Conservative government minister.
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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