Representatives of Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, the House of Lords, Commons, the British Jewish community and the Liberal Party were among the mourners who attended memorial services at the West End Synagogue here, yesterday for the late Lord Herbert Samuel. Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and Texteth, who died two weeks ago at the age of 92, had been a member of that Orthodox synagogue for 80 years.
Among the 600 attending the rites, which followed earlier, private interment, were Lord Hailsham, representing the House of Lords; Lord Monckton, representing Balliol College; Jo Grimond, leader of the Liberal Party; and Sir Barnett Janner, representing the Board of Deputies of British Jews, which he heads in addition to representing the Labor Party in Commons.
In his eulogy, Dr. Chaim Pearl, spiritual leader of the synagogue, pointed cut that Lord Samuel combined in the title he assumed when he became a Viscount in 1937, “the place of his birth and the place of his greatest work–Texteth in Liverpool and Carmel in Palestine. ” Lord Samuel held, among many other high posts during his long career, the position of Britain’s High Commissioner for Palestine under the League of Nations Mandate.
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