The new Lord Edwin Herbert Samuel, who succeeded to the title when his father, the Viscount Herbert Samuel, died last week, said here today he would not be taking his seat as a peer in the House of Lords at least until next summer. He will serve as a Socialist, having become one after World War II.
Next week, Lord Samuel is scheduled to return to his post as visiting professor at the Graduate School of Public Affairs of the State University of New York. “I return to Britain in May and shall probably take my seat in the summer,” he declared.
The new Lord Samuel, who is 64, has spent most of his adult life abroad, many of the years in Palestine and Israel. Founder and principal of the Institute of Public Administration in Israel, he is also a lecturer at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His wife is the former Hadassah Goor, a member of a well-known Israeli family. In pre-Israel Palestine, Edwin Samuel was a member of the British Civil Service from 1920 to 1948. He is a prolific writer, being the author of works on public administration, problems of government, in Israel, and two books of short stories.
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