Bernhard Samuelson ( 1820 - 1905 )

Birth: Hamburg, Germany (22 November 1820) Death: His residence, 56 Princes Gate, London (10 May 1905) Burial: Torre Cemetery, Torquay Profession: Engineer Industrialist Career: Apprenticed to a Swiss firm of merchants, Liverpool; Manager, firm of engineers, Manchester (1842-1846); founded a railway works, Tours (1846); developed a factory making agricultural implements, Banbury; built blast furnaces Middlesbrough (1853); built the Britannia iron works, Middesbrough; MP for Banburgh (1859 and 1865-1885); was forced to prove his 'Englishness' before he could sit in the House; MP for North Oxfordshire (1885-1895); Privy Councillor (1895); died of pneumonia Honours: Bt 1884 Memberships: MICE Membership: Fellow Election Date: 2/06/1881.