John Smith Samuel

Sir John Smith Samuel KBE FRSE, FSA, DL, JP was a Scottish local government official. He was ceremonial secretary to the Glasgow Corporation and private secretary to successive Lords Provost of Glasgow for 38 years.

Life

He was born on 2 April 1870.
In 1902 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Magnus Maclean, John Glaister, James Dalrymple Duncan Dalrymple and John Horne.
From 1903 he served as Secretary to John Ure Primrose. At that time he lived at 8 Park Avenue.
He then consecutively served Sir William Bilsland, Sir Archibald McInnes Shaw, Daniel Macaulay Stevenson, 1st Baronet|Daniel Macaulay Stevenson], Sir [Thomas Dunlop, 1st Baronet|Sir Thomas Dunlop], Sir [James Stewart, 1st Baronet|Sir James Stewart], Sir [Thomas Paxton, 1st Baronet|Sir Thomas Paxton], Sir David Mason and Sir Thomas Kelly.
He died in a nursing home in Glasgow on 10 November 1934 following a brief spell of influenza.