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Up for sale the "1st Baron Mancroft" Arthur Samuel Hand Signed TLS Dated 1927.
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Arthur Michael Samuel, 1st Baron Mancroft (6 December 1872 – 17 August 1942) was a British
Conservative politician. Lord Mancroft was
the eldest son of Benjamin Samuel, of Norwich
(19 April 1840 – 16 April 1890) and Rosetta Haldinstein (died 29 April 1907,
daughter of Philip Haldinstein and wife Rachel Soman), and grandson of Michael
Samuel (1799–1857), all of them were Ashkenazi
Jews. He was educated at Norwich School. He was Lord Mayor of Norwich from 1912 to 1913
and was made an Honorary Freeman of the City of Norwich in
1928. In 1918 he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) 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 Mancroft, in the City of
Norwich in the County of
Norfolk, on 15 January 1932, and on 23 December 1937, he was raised
to the peerage as Baron Mancroft, of Mancroft (referring to the area
around St Peter Mancroft church) 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, 2nd Baron Mancroft.
He was also to become a Conservative government minister. The
papers of Lord Mancroft are in the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill
College, Cambridge.
