Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling
British banker (1832–1911) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling[1] (21 December 1832 – 12 January 1911), was a British banker who founded the bank of Samuel Montagu & Co. He was a philanthropist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1900, and was later raised to the peerage. Montagu was a pious Orthodox Jew, and devoted himself to social services and advancing Jewish institutions.