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Show UW SWAYTHIN6. THE BANKER. 15 DEAD LONDON, Jan. 12. Baron S-wnyth-Ung, a banker, died here today. He was 78 years of ago. Montagu Samuel-Montagu, the first Baron Swaythllng, was born December Decem-ber 21, 1S32, and was the son of the lato Louis Samuel, a watchmaker of Liverpool. For more than fifty years he conducted con-ducted business in London, and until September. 1D09, was head of the hanking firm of Samuel Montagu & Co. In 1S94 ho wns permitted to assume the surnames of Samuel-Montagu and was created a baronet, in 1907 he was elevated to tho peerage, taklug the title of Baron Swaythllng of Swaythllng, county Southampton. The baron took a great Interest In advancing ad-vancing Jewish and other Institutions and in founding new synagogues. |