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Viscount Bearsted, of Maidstone in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1925 for the businessman Marcus Samuel, 1st Baron Bearsted, the joint-founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company.
Colonel Walter Horace Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted MC (13 March 1882 – 8 November 1948) 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.
Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted, JP (5 November 1853 – 17 January 1927), known as Sir Marcus Samuel between 1898 and 1921 and subsequently as The Lord Bearsted until 1925, was a Lord Mayor of London and the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, which was later restructured including a Netherlands-based company ...
Jan 17, 2016 · Marcus 'Baron Bearsted' Samuel invented the tanker and changed oil trading, leading Standard Oil to gripe about 'Hebrew influences'. Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted, founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, which would become part of the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Oct 24, 1996 · Viscount Bearsted's full title is The Viscount Bearsted. His name is Nicholas Alan Samuel, and he was excluded from the House of Lords on 11 November 1999. Parliamentary career. Find out about the Parliamentary career of Viscount Bearsted, including posts and roles held.
May 3, 2023 · Bearsted; a biography of Marcus Samuel, first viscount Bearsted, and founder of "Shell" Transport and Trading Company : Henriques, Robert David Quixano, 1905-1967 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
BEARSTED, MARCUS SAMUEL, FIRST VISCOUNT (1853–1927), founder of the Shell Oil Company. Marcus Samuel was educated at Jewish schools in London and Brussels before joining the firm established by his father Marcus Samuel, who had prospered in the Far Eastern trade, principally from selling fancy shells and ornamental shell boxes.
