Viscount Samuel

Viscount Samuel, of Mount Carmel and Toxteth in the City of Liverpool, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[2] It was created on 8 June 1937 for the Liberal politician and former High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine, Herbert Samuel. His grandsons, the third and fourth Viscounts, were respectively a prominent Israeli chemist and neurobiologist, and an oil executive. As of 2014 the title is held by the 4th Viscount's son, who succeeded as fifth Viscount in that year.

Viscountcy of Samuel
Escutcheon: Or a Bend between two Caps of Liberty Gules on a Chief Sable a Balance of the first: Crest: In front of a Sun rising Or a Dove wings elevated and addorsed holding in the beak an Olive Branch proper; Supporters: On either side a Lion Or the dexter gorged with a Collar Gules and resting the interior hind leg on a Stump of Oak eradicated and sprouting proper the sinister gorged with an Eastern Crown also Gules and resting the interior hind leg on a Stump of Olive eradicated and sprouting also proper [1]
Creation date	8 June 1937
Monarch	King George VI
Peerage	Peerage of the United Kingdom
First holder	Sir Herbert Samuel
Present holder	Jonathan Samuel
Heir presumptive	The Hon. Benjamin Samuel
Remainder to	Heirs male of the first viscount's body, lawfully begotten
Motto	Turn Not Aside

Herbert Samuel,
1st Viscount Samuel

The first Viscount Samuel was the nephew of the banker Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling.