Samuel Samuel was a British

United Kingdom

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 businessman and Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1913 to 1934.

Samuel founded Samuel Samuel & Co

Samuel Samuel & Co

Samuel Samuel & Co, was founded in Yokohama, Japan, by Samuel Samuel in partnership with his elder brother Marcus Samuel, creator of the Shell Transport and Trading company...

 in Yokohama

Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

, Japan

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, in partnership with his elder brother Marcus Samuel

Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted

Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted JP , known as Sir Marcus Samuel, 1st Baronet between 1903 and 1921 and subsequently as The Lord Bearsted until 1925, was the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, a precursor to Royal Dutch Shell.-Career:Samuel was born into a Jewish family in...

, creator of the Shell Transport and Trading company. The opening of this trading company

Trading company

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 helped paved the way for the industrialization of Japan.

Samuel unsuccessfully contested Leeds West

Leeds West (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at the 1906

United Kingdom general election, 1906

-Seats summary:-See also:*MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1906*The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-External links:***-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**...

 and January 1910 general elections,
and was unsuccessful again in Sunderland

Sunderland (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at the December 1910 general election.

He was elected as the Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Wandsworth

Wandsworth (UK Parliament constituency)

- Sources :* Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig * Social Geography of British Elections 1885-1910. by Henry Pelling...

 at a by-election in June 1913, following the resignation

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 of Sir Henry Kimber, Bt

Sir Henry Kimber, 1st Baronet

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. The constituency was divided at the 1918 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1918

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, when he was returned as a Coalition Conservative for the new Putney division

Putney (UK Parliament constituency)

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of Wandsworth.
He held the seat until his death in October 1934, aged 79.

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