Sir Samuel Isidore Salmon,

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

, JP (18 October 1900 – 10 November 1980) was a British politician, corporate executive, and philanthropist.

Early life

Salmon was born in

Kensington Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around west of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up by Kensingt ...

, London, the son of

Isidore Salmon Sir Isidore Salmon CBE DL JP (10 February 1876 – 16 September 1941) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. Early life He was the son of Barnett Salmon and his wife, Helena Gluckstein, the daughter of Samuel Gluckst ...

MP and Kate Abrahams. He attended

Bedales School Bedales School is a coeducational boarding and day public school, in the village of Steep, near the market town of Petersfield in Hampshire, England. It was founded in 1893 by Amy Garrett Badley and John Haden Badley in reaction to the li ...

, for which he was

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in 1919.

Career

Salmon served on

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, representing Cities of London and Westminster, from 1949 until its abolition in 1965. From 1964 to 1967, he was a

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of the Greater London Council for Westminster and the City of London. As an alderman, he became

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of the council in 1968. He was Mayor of

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in 1968–69, and from 1965 to 1968 was

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Peter Bird
"J. Lyons & Co.: Origins of the Company"
2002, retrieved 22 November 2016.

Personal life

Salmon married Lallah Wendy Benjamin; they had two children.

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retrieved 22 Feb 2011. 1900 births 1980 deaths People from Kensington Jewish British politicians Knights Bachelor Members of London County Council Members of the Greater London Council English chief executives Mayors of places in Greater London Councillors in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham People educated at Bedales School Gluckstein family Samuel Isidore 20th-century English businesspeople Commanders_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire {{UK-business-bio-1900s-stub