ABSTRACT
Samuel will be remembered as one of the key figures in the Liberal Party as it declined during the inter-war years and as a Zionist who helped to lay the foundations of the state of Israel. It will probably be forgotten that, although he was often closely associated with the freetrade section of the Liberal Party, he was one of the formative figures in the creation of the New Liberalism, with its emphasis upon social reform, which David Lloyd George helped develop in the early twentieth century.
