Harold Samuel, Baron Samuel of Wych Cross
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Harold Samuel, Baron Samuel of Wych Cross (23 April 1912 – 28 August 1987) was the British founder of Land Securities, one of the United Kingdom's largest property companies.
Early life and family
[edit]Born in Finchley in north London and educated at Mill Hill School and the College of Estate Management at Lincoln's Inn Fields, Harold Samuel initially trained to be a surveyor.[1]
He married Edna Nedas in September 1936 and they went on to have three daughters.[1]
Career
[edit]He established himself as an estate agent but in 1944 acquired Land Securities Investment Trust, a small property concern owning three modest properties.[1] After World War II he focused on securing bomb sites in Plymouth, Exeter, Hull, Coventry and Bristol and redeveloping them.[1] He built the business into one of the largest companies on the London Stock Exchange.[1]
He was knighted in 1963[2][3] and was created a Life Peer on 3 July 1972 taking the title Baron Samuel of Wych Cross, of Wych Cross in the County of Sussex.[4][5]
He is often credited with coining the tricolon expression "location, location, location", but the phrase was already in common use when he was still quite young.[6]
Other interests
[edit]Harold Samuel was an avid art collector. His collection of Dutch paintings, formed for him with the help of the dealer Edward Speelman,[7] was donated to the Mansion House Art Collection by his wife after his death[8] and subsequently displayed at the Barbican and toured the United States while the Mansion House was being renovated. A catalogue of the collection was prepared by Peter C. Sutton and published by Cambridge University Press to accompany the exhibition.
Samuel also became a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge,[1] and University College, London.[1]
Death
[edit]Samuel died in 1987.[1]
Arms
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h Harold Samuel, Baron Samuel of Wych Cross at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ "No. 43010". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 1963. p. 4794.
- ^ "No. 43058". The London Gazette. 19 July 1963. p. 6071.
- ^ "No. 45720". The London Gazette. 6 July 1972. p. 8076.
- ^ The Peerage
- ^ William Safire (26 June 2009). "On Language". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^ "Edward Speelman", The Times, 10 September 1994, p. 19.
- ^ Mansion House Art Collection Archived 2009-06-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Debrett's Peerage. 1985.
Further reading
[edit]- Dutch and Flemish Seventeenth-Century Paintings: The Harold Samuel Collection, Cambridge University Press, 1992 ISBN 978-0-521-41795-2