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Person    | Male  Born 5/11/1853  Died 17/1/1927

Sir Marcus Samuel

Sir Marcus Samuel

Mayor of the City of London 1902 - 03. President of the committee for the 1903-05 Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women.

Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted, 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 referred to as Royal Dutch Shell.

Born Whitechapel.

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Queen Victoria visits The City

Victoria died on 22 January 1901, less than a year after this last visit to t...

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Henry Lowenfeld

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