Career
He sat in the House of Commons from 1913 to 1934. The opening of this trading company helped paved the way for the industrialization of Japan, and Japan's thirst for fuel. Samuel unsuccessfully contested Leeds West at the 1906 and January 1910 general elections, and was unsuccessful again in Sunderland at the December 1910 general election.
The constituency was divided at the 1918 general election, when he was returned as a Coalition Conservative for the new Putney division of Wandsworth.
He held the seat until his death in October 1934, aged 79.