Viscount Samuel, of Mount Carmel and Toxteth in the City of Liverpool, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1937 for the Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

 politician and former High Commissioner

High Commissioner

High Commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment.The English term is also used to render various equivalent titles in other languages.-Bilateral diplomacy:...

 of the British Mandate of Palestine, Herbert Samuel

Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel GCB OM GBE PC was a British politician and diplomat.-Early years:...

. the title is held by his grandson, the third Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1978. He is a prominent Israeli

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 chemist and neurobiologist.

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

Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling

Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling was a British banker who founded the bank of Samuel Montagu & Co.. He was a philanthropist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1900, and was later raised to the peerage.Montagu was born in Liverpool as Montagu Samuel, the second...

.

Viscounts Samuel (1937)

• Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
  Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel GCB OM GBE PC was a British politician and diplomat.-Early years:...
  
   (1870–1963)
• Edwin Herbert Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel
  Edwin Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel
  Edwin Herbert Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel CMG , was the son of Herbert Samuel and the father of Professor David Samuel. He served in the Jewish Legion....
  
   (1898–1978)
• David Herbert Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel
  David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel
  David Hebert Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel OBE is the grandson of Herbert Samuel and thus also a second cousin of Rosalind Franklin. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and served in the Royal Artillery in the Second World War in India, Burma and Sumatra, reaching the rank of captain...
  
   (b. 1922)

The heir presumptive

Heir Presumptive

An heir presumptive or heiress presumptive is the person provisionally scheduled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir or heiress apparent or of a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question...

 is the present holder's brother the Hon. Dan Judah Samuel (b. 1925)

The heir presumptive's heir apparent

Heir apparent

An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....

is his son Jonathan Herbert Samuel (b. 1965)