Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted,
by Robert Henriques: Barrie & Rocliffe. 42s.
the man who founded Shell became one of the richest men in the world. But he was neither a financial genius, nor a great innovator or inventor. He was simply a very shrewd merchant, who never learnt anything about oil and whose major preoccupation throughout his life was with retaining the good name of his House and establishing his respectability and Patriotism in the eyes of the Edwardian English Establishment.