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Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

1870 - 1963

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Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (6 November 1870 – 5 February 1963) was a British Liberal politician who was the party leader from 1931 to 1935. He was the first nominally-practising Jew to serve as a Cabinet minister and to become the leader of a major British political party. Samuel had promoted Zionism within the British Cabinet, beginning with his 1915 memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine. In 1920 he was appointed as the first High Commissioner for Palestine, in charge of the administration of the territory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel is the 8,136th most popular politician (down from 6,668th in 2019), the 1,800th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,317th in 2019) and the 304th most popular British Politician.

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Among politicians, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel ranks 8,136 out of 19,576. Before him are Peter Wittgenstein, Agila I, Gerolama Orsini, Micheon of Goguryeo, Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg, and Rodrigo Lara. After him are Lew Wallace, Doubravka of Bohemia, Willi Münzenberg, Natalia Alexeievna, Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus, and Tommaso Mocenigo.

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Among people born in 1870, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel ranks 66. Before him are Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Alexandre Benois, Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, Herbert Kilpin, Annie Londonderry, and David Riazanov. After him are Guillaume Lekeu, Elizabeth Hesselblad, Vladimir Purishkevich, Géza Maróczy, Leonid Krasin, and Saki. Among people deceased in 1963, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel ranks 67. Before him are Georg Lindemann, Klára Dán von Neumann, Jacobus Oud, Gustaf Gründgens, Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, and Seth Barnes Nicholson. After him are Fazlollah Zahedi, Fritz Reiner, Garrett Morgan, Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Dinah Washington, and Ernst Marischka.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel ranks 1,800 out of 8,785. Before him are John Nash (1752), Stephen Toulmin (1922), Martin Gore (1961), Anthony Minghella (1954), Tom Hooper (1972), and Matthew Boulton (1728). After him are Colin McRae (1968), Claire Bloom (1931), Hudson Taylor (1832), George Robert Waterhouse (1810), Francis Baily (1774), and Catherine Eddowes (1842).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel ranks 304. Before him are Paul Radmilovic (1886), Blanche of Lancaster (1345), Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766), Jeffrey Archer (1940), William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw (1918), and Lord Guildford Dudley (1536). After him are John Bowring (1792), James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (1531), Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence (1451), Ælle of Sussex (500), John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (1384), and Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777).

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