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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 commonly ...
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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May 22, 2020 · Marcus Samuel was a pioneer in the global shipment of oil, became Lord Mayor of London and died as 1st Viscount Bearsted. The company he founded, Shell, is still a leader in world energy with a corporate identity that attests to its origins in a Jewish shop near the London docks.
Mar 10, 2020 · Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted. London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, 1902. In 1902, Marcus Samuel Jr. was raised to the peerage of Baronet and became the second Jewish Lord Mayor of London.
Samuel was lord mayor of London in 1902–03, the fifth Jew to hold this office. In 1921, he was made baron, and in 1925, Viscount Bearsted. Although holding no important Jewish communal offices, Samuel used his influence to help persecuted Jews.
May 3, 2023 · Bearsted; a biography of Marcus Samuel, first viscount Bearsted, and founder of "Shell" Transport and Trading Company. by. Henriques, Robert David Quixano, 1905-1967. Publication date. 1960. Topics. Bearsted, Marcus Samuel, 1st viscount, 1853-1927, "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, Ltd. Publisher. New York, Viking Press.
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.
