Samuel, Adrian Christopher Ian CMG CVO

1915

Ian Samuel, who is shown as No. 22 in Gilroy’s scene of the Garrick Club Outing in 1967, was born on 20 August 1915, the son of George Christopher Samuel and Alma Richards. After being educated at Rugby School and St John’s College, Oxford, he entered HM Consular Service in 1938 and served in various posts in North Africa. In the Second World War he was in the Royal Air Force. Subsequently his career in the Foreign Office took him to Embassies in Ankara, Cairo and Damascus. From October 1959 to 1963 he was Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and then Minister at HM Embassy in Madrid, 1963-1965. After resigning from the Foreign Service in 1965 he became Director of British Energy Chemical Contractors Association and British Agrochemicals Association. His publications include "An Astonishing Fellow; a Life of Sir Robert Wilson" (1986). Samuel was elected to the Garrick Club in May 1967.