Samuel Segal, Baron Segal

Samuel Segal, Baron Segal MRCS, LRCP, MA (Oxon) (2 April 1902 – 4 June 1985) was a British doctor and Labour Party politician who became Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.

Early life

Samuel Segal was the son of Moses Segal and the elder brother of Judah Segal. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, Jesus College, Oxford (Exhibitioner; Honorary fellow, 1966) and Westminster Hospital (Scholar).

Medical career

He was a casualty Surgeon at Westminster Hospital then a Senior Clinical Assistant at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. He served on several London County Council Hospital Committees.

Following the start of World War II, he joined RAFVR Medical Branch, October 1939. He served in Aden 1940, Western Desert 1941, Syrian Campaign 1941. He was attached to the Greek Air Force, 1941; Squadron Leader, 1942; Senior Medical Officer RAF Naval Co-operation Group in Mediterranean, 1942. He was on the Headquarters Staff Middle East, 1943-44 and the Air Ministry Medical Staff, 1944-45.

He was a regional medical officer for the Ministry of Health, 1951-62.

Political career

After unsuccessfully fighting the Tynemouth seat at the 1935 general election, he was stood again unsuccessfully at the Birmingham Aston by-election in May 1939. However, at the 1945 general election he was elected for Preston.

The Preston constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election, when Segal stood for the new Preston North seat, but lost by 938 votes to the Conservative candidate, Julian Amery. [ [http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/ge50/i16.htm UK general election results, February 1950] ]

In 1964, he was created a life peer as Baron Segal, of Wytham in the Royal County of Berkshire. In the House of Lords he was Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chairman of Committees from 1973-82.

Other posts

Lord Segal was chairman of the British Association for the Retarded, the Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children, the [Anglo-Israel Association and the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Association. He was a governor of Carmel College.

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