Major Peter Montefiore Samuel, 4th Viscount Bearsted MC TD (9 December 1911 – 9 June 1996) was a British peer and a director of Shell Transport and Trading. He also was a deputy chairman of Shell Transport and Trading. Samuel was commissioned into the

Warwickshire Yeomanry The Warwickshire Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1794, which served as cavalry and machine gunners in the First World War and as a cavalry and an armoured regiment in the Second World War, before being amalg ...

in March 1936. He served throughout the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

, being awarded the

Military Cross The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level (second-level pre-1993) military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and formerly awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries. The MC ...

in 1943 and ending the war as an acting major. He succeeded his elder brother in the viscountcy in 1986.

Titles and honours

* Mr Peter Samuel (1911–1927) * The Hon. Peter Samuel (1927–1943) * The Hon. Peter Samuel MC (1943–1951) * The Hon. Peter Samuel MC TD (1951–1986) * The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Bearsted MC TD (1986–1996)

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Portraits of Peter Montefiore Samuel, 4th Viscount Bearsted in the National Portrait Galley
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bearsted, 4th Viscount 1911 births 1996 deaths Recipients of the Military Cross Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom English people of Iraqi-Jewish descent Warwickshire Yeomanry officers British Army personnel of World War II