Samuel Fisher, Baron Fisher of Camden

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Samuel Fisher, Baron Fisher of Camden Kt (birth name: Samuel Fishtenberg * 20th January 1905 in Stepney , East End ; † 12. October 1979 ) was a British businessman and politician of the Labor Party in 1974 as a Life Peer due to the Life peerages Act 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Fisher, who was born as Samuel Fishtenberg to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe , left school at the age of 15 in 1920 and then worked as an entrepreneur in the diamond shop in Hatton Garden. In the course of time he became involved as secretary and vice-president of the London Diamond Bourse .

After the end of World War II , Fisher began his political career for the Labor Party in local politics when he was elected a member of the Borough Council of Stoke Newington in 1945 . He later served as Mayor of Stoke Newington from 1953 to 1954 .

When the 1964 reorganization of the London Boroughs came in preparation for the establishment of Greater London in 1965 , he became Chairman of the Council of the London Borough of Camden and was then Mayor of the London Borough of Camden between 1965 and 1966. On February 7, 1967 he was beaten for his services to the Knight Bachelor and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". In 1973 he became the last chairman of the Metropolitan Water Board , the water authority responsible for London, which was restructured in 1974 to the Thames Water Authority .

In addition to his entrepreneurial and political activities, Fisher was also involved in various organizations representing the Jews and between 1973 and 1979 was President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews , where he was replaced by Greville Janner . Until his death, he was also chairman of the board of directors of the World Jewish Congress and for a time also vice-president of the Marxist - Zionist workers' circle Poalei Zion and president of the Friends of the aid organization Magen David Adom , the United Jewish Friendly Society and the Jewish Union The Jewish Association for the Physically Handicapped .

By a letters patent dated June 19, 1974, Fisher was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Fisher of Camden , of Camden in Greater London, to the nobility and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 44246, HMSO, London, February 10, 1967, p. 1587 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 44246, HMSO, London, September 24, 1964, p. 1587 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Fisher, Samuel, Baron Fisher of Camden
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fisher, Samuel, Baron Fisher of Camden (full name); Fishtenberg, Samuel (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Stepney , East End
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1979