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"SIR HERBERT LOUIS SAMUEL (1870-), British politi cian, was born at Liverpool Nov. 6 1870, the son of the banker Edwin Louis Samuel. He was educated at University College school and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1893. In 1895 and 1900 he unsuccessfully contested South Oxfordshire as a Liberal, but in 1902 was elected for the Cleveland division of Yorks. He entered Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Government in 1905 as Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Home Office. From 1909 to 1910 he was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with a seat in the Cabinet, and in 1910 became postmaster-general. He held this office until 1914, and then became for a year president of the Local Government Board. From 1915 to 1916 he was again postmaster-general and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and in 1916 became Home Secretary. He acted as chairman of the select committee on national expenditure (1917-8), and in 1919 was a British special commissioner to Belgium. In 1920 he was appointed high commissioner to Palestine and was created G.B.E.