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Harold Samuel, Baron Samuel of Wych Cross

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On either side an old man Proper bearded in flowing robes Argent and shod with sandals that to the dexter holding in the exterior hand a horn of oil Proper lid and virols Or that to the sinister holding beneath the exterior arm two scrolls
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and toured the United States while the Mansion House was being renovated. A catalogue of the collection was prepared by
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Harold Samuel was an avid art collector. His collection of Dutch paintings, formed for him with the help of the dealer
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expression "location, location, location", but the phrase was already in common use when he was still quite young.
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Argent a bend Gules masoned Or between two masons' trowels bendwise Proper on a chief Vert a balance Or.
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and redeveloping them. He built the business into one of the largest companies on the
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Harold Samuel, Baron Samuel of Wych Cross at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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He married Edna Nedas in September 1936 and they went on to have three daughters.
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Dutch and Flemish Seventeenth-Century Paintings: The Harold Samuel Collection
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Art Collection by his wife after his death and subsequently displayed at the
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and published by Cambridge University Press to accompany the exhibition.
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In front of a demi-sun Or a house martin wings addorsed Proper.
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He established himself as an estate agent but in 1944 acquired
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Coat of arms of Harold Samuel, Baron Samuel of Wych Cross
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Harold Samuel


Nicolaes Maes
Land Securities
United Kingdom
Finchley
London
Mill Hill School
Lincoln's Inn Fields
surveyor
Land Securities Investment Trust
World War II
Plymouth
Exeter
Hull
Coventry
Bristol
London Stock Exchange
knighted
Life Peer
Wych Cross
County of Sussex
tricolon
Edward Speelman
Mansion House
Barbican
Peter C. Sutton
Magdalene College, Cambridge
University College

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