art collector
Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted.
British peer, chief executive, military and art collector (1882–1948)
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About Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted
Colonel Walter Horace Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted, was an Anglo-Jewish army officer and oilman. Samuel was the son of Marcus Samuel, the founder of Shell Transport and Trading, and from 1921 to 1946 served as the company's second chairman. He was also a prominent art collector, storing many of his pieces at his family home at Upton House in Warwickshire, and a philanthropist. He was a member of the anti-Zionist Jewish Fellowship, which was founded in 1942.
Everything about Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted →- Occupation
- art collector, politician, businessperson, entrepreneur
- Position held
- member of the House of Lords, chairperson, captain, colonel
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- March 13, 1882
- Died
- November 8, 1948