| Authorised form of name | Samuelson; Sir; Bernhard (1820 - 1905) |
| Dates | 1820 - 1905 |
| Place of birth | Hamburg, Germany |
| Date of birth | 22 November 1820 |
| Place of death | His residence, 56 Princes Gate, London |
| Date of death | 10/05/1905 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Torre Cemetery, Torquay |
| Occupation | Engineer; Industrialist |
| Activity | 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 Banbury (1859; 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
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/06/1881 |
| Relationships | Eldest son of Samuel Henry Samuelson of Liverpool and his wife Sarah Hertz.
Married: 1) (1844) Caroline, daughter of Henry Blundell JP (she died 1866); 2) (06 April 1889) Lelia Mathhida, daughter of Chevalier Leon Serena and widow of William Denny of Dumbarton |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/115674781 |
| Code | NA6639 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1881/18 | Samuelson, Sir Bernhard: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/10/403 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Bernhard Samuelson, Fellow of the Royal Society | 20 November 1894 |
| NLB/19/38 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to John Riley, Britannia Works, Banbury | 6 June 1899 |
| NLB/24/595 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Right Honorable Sir Bernhard Samuelson, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | [June 1902] |
| NLB/7/602 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir John Evans | 21 March 1893 |
| MC/12/223 | Letter from B [Bernhard] Samuelson, Hotel Continental, Paris, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 28 November 1881 |
| MC/12 | Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1880-1883 |